turritopsis

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Green: The turritopsis nutricula species of jellyfish may be the only animal in the world to have truly discovered the fountain of youth.

Archive 2010-03-14 Bill Crider 2010
The turritopsis nutricula species of Jellyfish has been discovered to be the first, and possibly only, yewknee: yoo·ne: n.a. imaginary word with absolutely no literal meaning but an extremely nerdy etymology.

yewknee.com 2010
Most of the posts in the final quarter of last year were made by one of our other writers (turritopsis 'excellent coverage of the SENS4 conference).

Medlogs - Recent stories 2010
Enlarge This turritopsis jellyfish was foubnd off the Florida coast.

Blah, Blah! Technology 2009
While most members of the jellyfish family usually die after propagating, turritopsis has developed the unique ability to return to a polyp state.

Blah, Blah! Technology 2009
Every so often, I extend an invitation to interested scientists who might want to turritopsis).

Ouroboros 2009