When the jellyfish is damaged or stressed, it shrinks in on itself, reabsorbs its tentacles, and settles on the seafloor as a cyst ...

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They can then mature again from there as normal, producing new, genetically identical medusae. This life cycle reversal can be repeated, and in perfect conditions, it may be that these jellyfish would ...