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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Jellyfish are cnidrians which also include corals and sea anemones. Jellyfish are a specific lifecycle stage of medusozoans (their own subphylum), while corals and sea anemones are anthozoans (another subphylum of Cnidria).

    So yup, they are polyps before sexual maturity.

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    • Aermis@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You just made up all those words.

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      • jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Jellyfish are a subcagetorum of cthulonic phteven

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      • Klear@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You neved heard phylum before? You phylustine!

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      • InverseParallax@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        All words are made up.

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  • NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is a species of jellyfish which is functionally immortal. When they get too old they simply turn into children again and re-age.

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    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      functionally immortal

      Biologically immortal is the term you were looking for

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      • NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No, I meant functionally. As in practically. For all intents and purposes. As in under normal conditions.

        It’s like if I said “You meant ‘searching for’ and not ‘looking for’”, when looking indicates visual searching.

        In other words it’s a meaningless distinction in the usage and I would look like a real dickhead pedant if I insisted you use another word.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I came here to say this… that shit is insane.

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    • Amanduh@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What if they get eated

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      • fsxylo@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Then they’ll be unfunctionally immortal.

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      • NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This is what I mean by functionally.

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    • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sort of like humans, but we turn into children again and die. Oh well.

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fantastic.

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  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do you think jellyfish grow in trees?

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    • mc900ftJesus@lemy.lol ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ahh immortality, I’m jelly.

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      • kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I automatically read this in Zoidberg’s voice.

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    • mattd@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do you think you just fell out of the jellyfish tree?

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    • PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Image

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  • Pothetato@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This graphic is going counterclockwise and I didn’t enjoy that. On the other hand, neat.

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    • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I disagree, time should flow left to right and by the nature of the egg it starts with top-to-bottom. so you have to start on the left, go to the bottom, keep going right, then the jellyfish rises so go back to top and then complete the circle

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      • Redfox8@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But what came first? The jellyfish or the egg??!!

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    • somethingp@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you change your orientation, this could still be clockwise

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      • Benjaben@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yep if I look at the back of my phone, instead of this, it is indeed!

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  • AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Jellyfish are creepy and gross, they’re like living sea mushrooms.

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Mushrooms are creepy and gross too, when you get to know them.

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      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        fungi are conceptually lovecraftian horrors but in practice they’re basically just strange plants, and i find that neat.

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      • AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I hate mushrooms with a passion tbh, not just the way they taste, but even seeing them growing in the wild grosses me out. Disgusting things, I’d eat bugs before resorting to eating mushrooms.

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    • jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nooo they’re so cool. I could watch them all day.

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      • AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Fair enough, they just creep me out for some reason lol.

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  • ultrahamster64@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

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    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The

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      • LouSlash@szmer.info ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The

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  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The proud moment in every jellyfish’s life when the buds come in.

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  • ignotum@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In stasis, it bends but won’t break us
    Aurelia, majestic as a lion’s roar embodies her
    Terranean, threaten and shield us
    Endanger, recoil and rewind the tapes
    She’s born again
    […]
    Medusa, a haunting allure
    Elusive ectoplasmic residue
    She’ll dance for you
    Inducing hydro-cosmic dreams in you
    Of eternal blue

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve never read this, and I don’t know if it’s even a song or a poem or what… and yet somehow, I get the feeling that they’re lyrics to a TOOL song.

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      • Entropywins@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Haken - sempiternal beings I had to look it up cause I was 100% with you on thinking TOOL.

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, it’s wild, but there’s not a lot of fuck in it.

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    • Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Kinda fit, they have no fuck to give too.

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They also track sunlight so you can predict where they will be at certain times in areas with shade. Example: more likely to be closer to eastern shores in the mornings, further out at night.

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  • subtext@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t believe any single part of this, it just can’t be true

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      the more you learn about how different species work the more your current worldview absolutely crumbles into dust and you see reality for the lawless mess that it is.

      Barnacles are crustaceans, if you slice one in half you see that it’s a fucked up deformed crayfish sitting inside the shell.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      One species is immortal, and just does this cycle again when it gets old.

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_dohrnii

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    • Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      youtu.be/jwVEhEPK9dI

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  • Stomata@buddyverse.one ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And you can’t eat them :(

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    • vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why do you think that?

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfish_as_food

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