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 ...

"We found that under certain conditions, these animals can basically go back in their life stage ... sea walnut or a warty comb jelly, is not a jellyfish, but rather a type of transparent ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...