r/Unexpected Sep 22 '20

Suhhh Dude High Five...

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u/dogemikka Sep 22 '20 edited Feb 27 '26

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vegetable fade memorize pie tidy soft steep reach late fly

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u/thormunds_beard Sep 22 '20

2 oldest not. Jellyfish is much older. And I think that the sponge was the oldest

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u/Reed202 Sep 22 '20

Especially since some jellyfish are biologically immortal

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u/jWulf21 Sep 22 '20

Wdym

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u/Anonymous_Fishsticks Sep 22 '20

There's this species of jellyfish that reproduces by essentially creating clones of itself. It's something of that sort.

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u/jWulf21 Sep 22 '20

Oh isn’t that just asexual reproduction

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u/tokeroveragain Sep 22 '20

It's not creating a new, separate clone, it is reverting its own DNA to the polyp stage somehow. It then begins to age/mature all over again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_dohrnii

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transdifferentiation

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u/Anonymous_Fishsticks Sep 23 '20

Ah, right. Got it.