Uh oh. You’ve all heard me talk about how jellyfish are taking over the world. (You haven’t?) Now, here’s a new headline to freak us out: The world’s only immortal animal A type of jellyfish has been discovered that is able to constantly return and (re)grow out of its polyp stage, which is like saying when it turns 50 it starts becoming a toddler again, then growing back old… then young again… etc, forever. But it’s only one crazy variety of j-fish, right—so what? Well, many other species work in similar manners: when you attempt to fish/kill/remove/pester/laugh at them, they release chemicals which sink to the bottom of the ocean (where their offspring lie dormantly growing like little tree things attached to the rock bed), thereby signalling them that its time to avenge mommy and mature into a full-fledged jellyfish. And they do this hundreds at a time. So kill 1 six-foot wide jellyfish = Spawn 100 new ones to takes its place. The oceans off Japan (besides being otherwise out of fish) are so clogged with massive jellyfish, it’s making it near impossible to harvest—and what fish do turn up, come in badly stung (and thus unsellable/wasted) because there are pissed off jellyfish caught in the nets too.

Uh oh. You’ve all heard me talk about how jellyfish are taking over the world. (You haven’t?) Now, here’s a new headline to freak us out:

The world’s only immortal animal

A type of jellyfish has been discovered that is able to constantly return and (re)grow out of its polyp stage, which is like saying when it turns 50 it starts becoming a toddler again, then growing back old… then young again… etc, forever.

But it’s only one crazy variety of j-fish, right—so what? Well, many other species work in similar manners: when you attempt to fish/kill/remove/pester/laugh at them, they release chemicals which sink to the bottom of the ocean (where their offspring lie dormantly growing like little tree things attached to the rock bed), thereby signalling them that its time to avenge mommy and mature into a full-fledged jellyfish. And they do this hundreds at a time.

So kill 1 six-foot wide jellyfish = Spawn 100 new ones to takes its place. The oceans off Japan (besides being otherwise out of fish) are so clogged with massive jellyfish, it’s making it near impossible to harvest—and what fish do turn up, come in badly stung (and thus unsellable/wasted) because there are pissed off jellyfish caught in the nets too.