5 comments

  • UltraSane 2 hours ago
    Don't they have the advantage of having very simple tissue?
    • packetlost 2 hours ago
      They're not even technically one organism, but colonies of independent but mostly specialized organisms. I'd be willing to bet that has something to do with the articles title
      • andsoitis 1 hour ago
        True jellyfish (like moon jellies, box jellyfish)are a single organism, just like you or me. Theres a single genome and one body.

        Portuguese man o’ war is not a single organism at all but a siphonophore, a colony of many genetically identical but specialized individual organisms called zooids, all fused together and functionally dependent on each other.

        • sophrosyne42 18 minutes ago
          Whats the difference between a siphonophore and a single organism? Aren't all the organs of an organism genetically identical, specialized, fused together, and functionally dependent on each other?
      • timschmidt 48 minutes ago
        You're thinking of Siphonophores like the Portugese Man-o-war. The Octopus Lady has a wonderful video on them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipDpbYQdFEA
    • andsoitis 1 hour ago
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  • karim79 1 hour ago
    At first glance I imagined this was a magic way to heal a wound by rubbing a jellyfish on it. Skin irritation be damned, this is gonna save lives.

    But no. No such joy.

  • piusk 1 hour ago
    how does this work, when they just sting
    • jagged-chisel 18 minutes ago
      Healing their own wounds, not ours.
    • 14 41 minutes ago
      Nothing in the article mentioned stinging I am confused what you are asking ?
  • dspnc 1 hour ago
    TL/DR: be made of jelly