Do you think jellyfish grow in trees?
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.
I don’t believe any single part of this, it just can’t be true
One species is immortal, and just does this cycle again when it gets old.
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.
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
Well, it’s wild, but there’s not a lot of fuck in it.
