Immortal Jellyfish!

[Suu]

What an awesome band name.

Also:

http://green.yahoo.com/blog/guest_bloggers/26/the-world-s-only-immortal-animal.html

Since it is capable of cycling from a mature adult stage to an immature polyp stage and back again, there may be no natural limit to its life span. Scientists say the hydrozoan jellyfish is the only known animal that can repeatedly turn back the hands of time and revert to its polyp state (its first stage of life).

[Captain Utopia]

That's pretty bizarre.  But neat.

[NotPublished]

what animals eat jelly fish?

[Freeky]

what animals eat jelly fish?

Squid, maybe, and other ocean animals.

[Cainad (dec.)]

what animals eat jelly fish?

Sea turtles do. Which is why they try to gulp down plastic bags and make marine life enthusiasts cry.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

THat's neat, seems like something out of a sci-fi book. I for one, welcome our jellyfish overlords. Once they grown legs and opposable thumbs of course.

Is this a fairly recent development? (Evolution wise)

[NotPublished]

Maybe they'll turn into those brain things at mass effect?

[Reginald Ret]

That's neat, seems like something out of a sci-fi book. I for one, welcome our jellyfish overlords. Once they grown legs and opposable thumbs of course.

Is this a fairly recent development? (Evolution wise)

I seem to remember that ageing is a fairly recent development.
All living things used to be immortal.
Of course, this was before the higher forms of live developed.
I assume this species' ability developed again instead of it being a remainder of the past.

so in short: all simple species don't age. All higher(not implying that they are actually better, I'm just talking about an increased level of complexity) species age, and this species learned to reverse the ageing process.
OK, so that wasn't that short.

[Triple Zero]

what animals eat jelly fish?

They sell it at the local asian supermarket here I guess I'll have to try. I bet it won't taste like much except the pickle or brine it is kept in.

Also I keep reading this thread is "Immoral Jellyfish", and keep wondering wtf that could mean.

[Cain]

THIS JELLYFISH DOES NOT RESPECT HIS ELDERS!

[NotPublished]

your eating immortal ... things!

What would they taste like ... kinda curious.

But if a complex life form reversed the aging process, or 'started again' wouldn't it necessarily forget everything? Since its just uh collapsing and re-forming the brain?

[Kai]

your eating immortal ... things!

What would they taste like ... kinda curious.

But if a complex life form reversed the aging process, or 'started again' wouldn't it necessarily forget everything? Since its just uh collapsing and re-forming the brain?

Hydrozoans don't have brains.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

your eating immortal ... things!

What would they taste like ... kinda curious.

But if a complex life form reversed the aging process, or 'started again' wouldn't it necessarily forget everything? Since its just uh collapsing and re-forming the brain?

Hydrozoans don't have brains.

But hypothetically if a primate did it, would they unlearn everything?

[LMNO]

Would a blue dream sneeze like an ashtray?

[Reginald Ret]

This.
twid: Your question makes no sense.
Even if you somehow manage to force it to happen, your subject would die. Instantly.