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Immortal jellyfish

If you think you've seen it all — how about a jellyfish that can actually get younger?

March 31, 2014
Environment

A novelist and a marine biologist have teamed up to write a book about some of the ocean’s oldest, oddest, fiercest and strangest creatures. And just as you come to love (or at least admire) them, you find out they are in trouble.

If you think you've seen it all — how about a jellyfish that can actually get younger?

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