Bloody Hell! Seems global warming isn’t just making the beach a lot closer to your house, it’s also responsible for a size-splosion in some sea creatures, including this Nomuru Jellyfish.
Normally resident off Japan, warmer seas have seen the Nomura swell to giant size in recent years, Which means it’s only a matter of time until Godzilla arrives!
LINK (Discovery)
Forget cockroaches surviving a nuclear blast, the planet’s new overlords once we’ve killed ourselves in some way on another, is the jellyfish. That is, unless they are planning on taking out humanity themselves. They have a pretty good advantage over us. Immortality.
The Turritopsis Nutricula is able to revert back to a juvenile form once it mates after becoming sexually mature.
Marine biologists say the jellyfish numbers are rocketing because they need not die.
Dr Maria Miglietta of the Smithsonian Tropical Marine Institute said: “We are looking at a worldwide silent invasion.”
The jellyfish are originally from the Caribbean but have spready all over the world.
Turritopsis Nutricula is technically known as a hydrozoan and is the only known animal that is capable of reverting completely to its younger self.
Having stumbled upon the font of eternal youth, this tiny creature which is just 5mm long is the focus of many intricate studies by marine biologists and geneticists to see exactly how it manages to literally reverse its aging process.
I was scared of jellyfish before I knew this. Now I know the little fuckers can’t die, hitting them with a spade has become less fun.
LINK (Telegraph)
The Siphonophore is not one, but many individual jellyfish type creatures that function as a colony. Creepy!
LINK (Pink Tentacle)
