Something else that is immortal besides Henrietta Lacks.

In our frantic effort to fight the forces of boredom and sleeplessness that overtakes us often here at the crazy, (brought about today by a wrong number phone call at 5:30 AM this morning.) we spent another couple of hours trying to find something interesting to write about on todays blog, and just when we were about to give up we stumbled upon this little tidbit. It seems there is a creature living on this planet that is immortal. No, we are not kidding. It's called the turritopsis nuetricula, and it's actually a species of jellyfish found in the worlds oceans. It was originally found in the Caribbean but has spread worldwide due to it's peculiar habit of reverting back to it's polyp state (it's first stage of life)every so often. This amazing sea creature will keep returning to it's early stage of life over and over again. The samples kept in labs have done so 100% of the time. So this little sea creature is born, mates, (making hundreds of children in each mating) and then reverts back to it's childhood to start all over again. If not for natural predators that devour it, turritopsis nuetricula would have long ago taken over the oceans. We at the crazy find this fascinating, but would like to point out that if we had the opportunity to revert back to our teenage years again we would pass. Although the mating part would be cool. Ciao for now.