Jellyfish is world's only "immortal" animal

I thought aging happened from damage to the DNA strands. The damage gets passed on when the cell divides. Maybe these jellyfish have a way to weed out the damaged cells so that only good ones get to multiply?

Ohhh, does that mean its population will just keep growing and growing out of control? The numbers may be growing because we've lowered the numbers of turtles who would have eaten the jellyfish previously.

I first saw this on yahoo and for some reason I got so excited. Hearing of an animal that can't die of old age seemed incredible and basically said anything is possible now!

Damn it can't die of old age, that's pretty cool. I wonder how old the oldest jellyfish is.

It is a Whovian jellyfish. I am sure turtles find them very tasty so I wouldn't worry about them taking over as long as we don't do the turtles in.

i am sure that like everything else this still wears out.

That is really cool...........

If we were able to do this, regenerate like this animal I mean, then would we also be making our brains grow back as an infant brain, right? If this were the case, even if we were to live practically forever, would we forget everything? It is very intriguing that this jellyfish can live forever, but it hasn't reached invincibility yet, lol.

Because they are able to bypass death, the number of individuals is spiking. They're now found in oceans around the globe rather than just in their native Caribbean waters. "We are looking at a worldwide silent invasion," says Dr. Maria Miglietta of the Smithsonian Tropical Marine Institute. This is reason enough that humans should never discover its secret of unlimited transdifferentiation. I certainly would not want an uncontrolled human population spreading its filth across this universe.

Would not be nice to be reincarnated as a jellyfish, then there would be no chance of becoming human again. Spending eternity as a jellyfish... If that's your passport photo Mutationman?...Then it would be an improvement!!!!..HA! HA! Just kidding!