Is immortality true in planet earth, meaning living forever or evading death? Legend apart is it still possible on planet Earth? Yes for sure says few Egypt royal bees of scientist community! Come on, it is impossible! If that is your expression, I would ask you to better revise it to “it is NEXT to impossible”; to be on the safer side. We can prove you all completely wrong counter strikes few scientists. Their attack tool? Turritopsis nutricula! This is a species of jellyfish and is the only known or rather proved to know the answer for billion dollar question “how to beat death?”- Though they look very similar to their cousins the Turritopsis rubra, the latter is a lot different from our hero. Turritopsis nutricula measures just about 5 millimeters in diameter when fully grown.

They are biologically immortal in that they could transform from a sexually mature 5 millimeter diameter jellyfish to a sexually immature larvae of about 1 millimeter. Though we are talking in terms of millimeter, remember in real world we talk of nano’s and pico’s! It is not such a simple thing to reduce in size by about 4 millimeters. It is similar for a human being to transform from 5 feet to 1 foot in height. Oh wow! You are getting there now, get on board with us! Now how do they make it possible? ‘TRANSDIFFERENTIATION’! Not a common word right? Well it exactly means a cell development life cycle. In real life example it is the ability to make the cells of any part of body to be regenerated as and when required; when a lizard’s tail is cut off it can re-grow in sometime. Likewise the Turritopsis nutricula can transform to the larvae stage making it immortal as this can happen countless time! However, the nature is so brilliant and intelligent that food chains cannot be evaded by these jellies. They do die of disease during plankton stage and can also be eaten by other fishes anytime making it not completely immortal.