Once settled, it grows into ... jellyfish body shrinks to form something like a sphere, called a "cysto". This drifts until it sticks to the bottom, and then generates a new polyp, which in turn ...

It appears that a species of jellyfish can not only defy death, but has the ability to change its form and actually reverse its aging in a sort of “Back to ... cyst changes into a polyp and ...

Like the Brad Pitt movie character, the immortal jellyfish transforms from an adult back into a baby, but with an added ... The jellyfish turns itself into a bloblike cyst, which then develops ...

After reaching sexual maturity, this jellyfish can revert to its juvenile stage and mature again—a feat that would be akin to a butterfly turning back into ... polyp and turn into medusae ...

Larger fish like hake and mackerel, sea mammals like sea lions and porpoises, and sea birds, like gannets and gulls, eat gobies, putting jellyfish back into the food cycle. "We don't know if they ...

But jellyfish ... back up the food web," said study co-author Deborah Steinberg, also a Virginia Institute of Marine Science biologist. "When jellies are around, they're shunting this energy into ...

"Cannonball jellyfish (and others) "bloom" at certain times of year when temperatures are right for their tiny inconspicuous polyp stage (sessile form attached to a substrate) to metamorphose into ...