At Kyoto University's Seto Marine Biological Laboratory on the Shirahama coast, biologist Shin Kubota has watched the same Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish die and un-die so many times in his tank that he has started writing karaoke songs about an animal that, for all practical purposes, just refuses to stay dead. (opens in new tab)

Shin Kubota keeps a tank of Turritopsis dohrnii in his lab at Kyoto University’s Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, on the Wakayama coast at Shirahama, and he has watched the same jellyfish die and un-die so many times that he has written karaoke songs about them. The animals are no larger than a pencil eraser. When […]