Jellyfish: An Amazing Species With Eternal Life Creature

Deep in the ocean before any animal tread the earth they were here. A creature that has no head, no heart, and no brain have flourished over 600 million years, a jellyfish. Magnificent assents that can kill in seconds. They have mysterious abilities that scientists are knowing to improve the health of the human such as cancer, aging, and genetic disease. Scientists have found that they can also astonish the promise of eternal life. 

These small creatures are microscopic and giant creatures are 2 meters in diameter whose tentacles can reach up to 20 meters length. 

Jellyfish don't mate. Rather males release spermatozoids that float in the current. Some encounter the female egg cells and fertilize them. The fertilized egg develops into an elongated which fixes itself on the rock and continues to until it becomes a minuscule organism, a polyp. They have a central mouth surrounded by tentacles, which they use for catching prey. They catch enough prey until they turn themselves into tiny jellyfish, this process is called articulation. 

Every year 100's of dead jellyfish wash up on the beaches of Brittany in northern France. But there is one positive sign in this. They have a precious protein called collagen which makes 1/3 rd of our body tissue. Collagen composes 75% of our skin. Once harvested the jellyfish are washed and then mashed up. After a long process of purification, fibers of pure collagen can be extracted. Several kilo dozens of jellyfish are necessary to obtain just a few grams of pure collagen which is used in medical applications. 

Dangerous Species

Chironex fleckeri, an origin from jellyfish in which tentacles are almost 3 ft. that contains enough venom to kill dozens of people in just 2-3 mins. These deadly creatures lurk near the Australian northern beaches between November and May. Their tentacles are covered with capsules made of venom. Whenever the victim comes near them it automatically pierces through the skin and releases a million droplets of venom directly into the blood. Each adult jellyfish box has over 5000 million nematocysts. Not all jellyfish are dangerous.  

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An Immortal Creature

There is a tiny jellyfish living in the Mediterranean sea which could well possess the secret of eternal. The Turritopsis dohrnii is only a few millimeters in diameter yet it's quite capable of feat in the animal kingdom. This jellyfish has the capability of turning back the life cycle. If the jellyfish lacks food, it transforms themselves back into a polyp and became a new one, but they never die. Where it means it is an immortal. 

Usually, each cell has a specific task, as soon as the task is completed they are dead. But the cells in Turritopsis dohrnii can change from one to another, which makes them everlasting.

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