WILD Jellyfish Gang

Jellyfish are cnidarians, a phylum which also includes corals and sea anemones. Jellyfish are a specific lifecycle stage of medusozoans (their own subphylum), while corals and sea anemones are anthozoans (another subphylum of Cnidaria).

So yup, they are polyps before sexual maturity. And you'll find they're more closely related to corals than they are to members of any other phylum.

Edit: I highly recommend that anyone who wants to get lost in the world of marine invertebrates check out WoRMS and then follow along in parallel on Wikipedia as you navigate the tree.

You just made up all those words.
- Jellyfish are a subcagetorum of cthulonic phteven
- You neved heard phylum before? You phylustine!
- All words are made up.

Do you think jellyfish grow in trees?

Ahh immortality, I’m jelly.
Do you think you just fell out of the jellyfish tree?

There is a species of jellyfish which is functionally immortal. When they get too old they simply turn into children again and re-age.

Edit: I'm not saying it's not biologically immortal, I'm saying functionally immortal because I'm indicating that it can still be killed.

Saying something doesn't experience aging is not the same as insisting it cannot die.

2+2=4 is not less correct because 2x2 also equals 4.

functionally immortal
Biologically immortal is the term you were looking for
- No, I meant functionally. As in practically. For all intents and purposes. As in under normal conditions.
  It's like if I said "You meant 'searching for' and not 'looking for'", when looking indicates visual searching.
  In other words it's a meaningless distinction in the usage and I would look like a real dickhead pedant if I insisted you use another word.
I came here to say this... that shit is insane.
What if they get eated
- Then they'll be unfunctionally immortal.
- This is what I mean by functionally.
Sort of like humans, but we turn into children again and die. Can't say we don't try tho.
Fantastic.

This graphic is going counterclockwise and I didn't enjoy that. On the other hand, neat.

I disagree, time should flow left to right and by the nature of the egg it starts with top-to-bottom. so you have to start on the left, go to the bottom, keep going right, then the jellyfish rises so go back to top and then complete the circle
- But what came first? The jellyfish or the egg??!!
If you change your orientation, this could still be clockwise
- Yep if I look at the back of my phone, instead of this, it is indeed!

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Well, it's wild, but there's not a lot of fuck in it.

Kinda fit, they have no fuck to give too.

In stasis, it bends but won't break us
Aurelia, majestic as a lion's roar embodies her
Terranean, threaten and shield us
Endanger, recoil and rewind the tapes
She's born again
[...]
Medusa, a haunting allure
Elusive ectoplasmic residue
She'll dance for you
Inducing hydro-cosmic dreams in you
Of eternal blue

I've never read this, and I don't know if it's even a song or a poem or what... and yet somehow, I get the feeling that they're lyrics to a TOOL song.
- Haken - sempiternal beings I had to look it up cause I was 100% with you on thinking TOOL.

The proud moment in every jellyfish's life when the buds come in.

Jellyfish are creepy and gross, they're like living sea mushrooms.

Mushrooms are creepy and gross too, when you get to know them.
- fungi are conceptually lovecraftian horrors but in practice they're basically just strange plants, and i find that neat.
- I hate mushrooms with a passion tbh, not just the way they taste, but even seeing them growing in the wild grosses me out. Disgusting things, I'd eat bugs before resorting to eating mushrooms.
Nooo they're so cool. I could watch them all day.
- Fair enough, they just creep me out for some reason lol.

I don’t believe any single part of this, it just can’t be true

the more you learn about how different species work the more your current worldview absolutely crumbles into dust and you see reality for the lawless mess that it is.
Barnacles are crustaceans, if you slice one in half you see that it's a fucked up deformed crayfish sitting inside the shell.
One species is immortal, and just does this cycle again when it gets old.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_dohrnii
https://youtu.be/jwVEhEPK9dI

They also track sunlight so you can predict where they will be at certain times in areas with shade. Example: more likely to be closer to eastern shores in the mornings, further out at night.

And you can't eat them :(

Why do you think that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfish_as_food