After swimming to the area where there were many sea walnuts, Xiang Yang slowly stopped.
The scene before my eyes was so beautiful.
The pleasing blue light emitted by countless sea walnuts looked like twinkling stars, making Xiang Yang feel like he was in an elf forest in a fairy tale world.
The sea walnuts were not afraid of Xiang Yang at all. They floated up and down around Xiang Yang, dancing gracefully.
Although the sea walnut has no eyes, it has an organ in its body that can sense gravity. This organ is called the statocyst. The sea walnut can use this organ to tell whether it is floating or sinking. Their tentacles sway gently, just like cute Smurfs.
"Hmm?" Xiang Yang suddenly hummed. Among the countless blue pleasing lights, Xiang Yang saw several bright red "lights".
Xiang Yang quickly looked carefully at the red lanterns.
After seeing it clearly, Xiang Yang burst out laughing, "It turned out to be a Turritopsis dohrnii."
The Turritopsis dohrnii is different from the sea walnut.
Although the sea walnut has the nickname of cat's eye jellyfish, it is actually not a real jellyfish, and it has nothing to do with jellyfish at all.
The Turritopsis dohrnii is a true jellyfish.
The Turritopsis dohrnii is a very magical small jellyfish. When it grows to adult size, its diameter is generally only four or five millimeters.
In recent years, with the rise of the live streaming industry, many big eaters have appeared on the Internet.
In fact, the immortal jellyfish is the real big eater.
The average body diameter of the Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish is only four or five millimeters, and the average diameter of its stomach is three or four millimeters. The entire body, except for its mouth, is stomach.
The body of the Turritopsis dohrnii is transparent and its stomach is red. Because its stomach is so large, when people first see the Turritopsis dohrnii, they will mistakenly think that it is red.
In fact, people just saw the red digestive system of the Turritopsis dohrnii through its transparent body.
"The Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish are rare. Although they are distributed all over the world, their main habitat is in the waters of the Caribbean." Xiang Yang underestimated them in his heart and began to think about whether he should catch some Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish.
The dohrnii jellyfish is a very valuable ornamental marine creature because it can emit dazzling red light in the water and its appearance resembles pomegranate seeds. In the romantic city, a fingernail-sized dohrnii jellyfish can cost up to 80 Euros.
"Let's catch one and see first." Xiang Yang flashed and appeared in front of a ball of red light, grabbing it in his hand.
Like most jellyfish, the Turritopsis dohrnii is toxic.
There is a row of thin protrusions composed of stinging cells on the edge of the lips of the Turritopsis dohrnii, which can distribute very strong toxins.
However, Xiang Yang was wearing a diving suit used for scientific research experiments and had high-tech protective gloves on his hands, so these toxins could not hurt Xiang Yang.
After the Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish was caught by Xiang Yang, it immediately began to struggle hard in Xiang Yang's palm.
Xiang Yang looked at the Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish carefully.
The appearance is the same as described in the book, and it is indeed the shape of pomegranate seeds.
However, if you only look at the umbrella of this Turritopsis immortalus jellyfish, Xiang Yang feels that its umbrella is more like a clock, the kind of clock used to tell time in temples.
What makes the Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish different from ordinary jellyfish are its tentacles.
Although the Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish is very small, it has quite a lot of tentacles. Xiang Yang took a quick look and couldn't count how many tentacles it had because they were so thin and dense.
"I heard that the Turritopsis dohrnii has about eighty or ninety tentacles, but when I take a quick look, I see that this Turritopsis dohrnii has at least a hundred and twenty or thirty tentacles?" Xiang Yang wondered in his heart, but did not delve into it further.
Perhaps the biologists were counting the Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish near the Caribbean Sea, which was not the same species as the one Xiang Yang encountered.
Xiang Yang stared at the Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish and always felt that the lips of this jellyfish were very funny. Xiang Yang had seen many marine animals, but this was the first time he had seen a marine creature with such a funny mouth.
The mouth of the Turritopsis immortali is just like the one in some comics, where the cartoonist draws a cross at the mouth of the character to save time.
The mouth of the Turritopsis dohrnii is like a fork, with the four corners of its lips curled upwards and rows of protruding dots along the entire edge of its mouth.
But this Turritopsis jellyfish is really beautiful!
The Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish caught by Xiang Yang looked like an upside-down transparent glass cup with a shining red heart in the cup, flashing beautifully.
Xiang Yang looked around but didn't find any hydra.
"It seems that this sea area is not the breeding ground of the Turritopsis dohrnii." The Turritopsis dohrnii will go through two types in its life. When it is young, it is a polyp, and then it becomes a jellyfish after it grows up to be an adult, which is somewhat similar to a tadpole turning into a frog.
Actually, think about it.
For the Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish to reproduce, it needs water temperature of around 20 degrees Celsius. Because this area of water is too deep, the temperature cannot reach 20 degrees, making it impossible for the Turritopsis dohrnii to breed.
"It's good that it's not a breeding ground. If it's not a breeding ground, I can catch it boldly without worrying about catching all the Turritopsis dohrnii in this area of water to extinction at once." Xiang Yang grabbed the Turritopsis dohrnii and swam towards the surface of the water.
Xiang Yang returned to the boat.
The crew had just finished cleaning up their catch.
Fang Youqun, who was drinking water, saw the Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish in Xiang Yang's hand and his eyes lit up.
"Hey, Brother Yang, what are you holding in your hand? This little guy is so beautiful."
Xiang Yang raised an eyebrow, "Little guy?"
Fang Youqun heard the teasing in Xiang Yang's tone and couldn't help wondering, "What's wrong? Could this be a big one?"
Xiang Yang smiled and said, "It's not really big, but it's an old guy. No one knows its exact age. It may have only been born for a few months. It may have existed longer than the oldest country in the world."
Fang Youqun's mouth widened. "It's longer than the oldest country in the world? Brother Yang, are you kidding me? Which of the four ancient civilizations didn't exist for thousands of years?"
Chen Qingsheng also widened his eyes, "Captain, are you saying this guy can live for thousands of years?"
"Maybe." Xiang Yang nodded. "The Turritopsis dohrnii is the only known creature on Earth that can theoretically live forever."
"hiss!"
When Xiang Yang said this, many people gasped.
The look in his eyes also changed when he looked at the Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish in Xiang Yang's hand.
Immortality.
What a dreamy word!
From ancient times to the present, people have been full of endless yearning for the word immortality. From emperors and generals to peddlers, who doesn't want immortality