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Nomura’s jellyfish is a very large rhizostome jellyfish, in the same size class as the lion’s mane jellyfish, the largest cnidarian in the world. It is edible but not considered high quality. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Nemopilema.

 

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Nigeria’s royal tortoise said to have lived to the age of 344 in Oyo state

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Alagba walking on the grass
image captionAlagba liked to eat the same food as humans, including plantain, rice and beans

A royal palace in Nigeria has announced that its resident tortoise has died following a short illness, saying it was a remarkable 344 years old.

The tortoise, named Alagba, meaning elderly one, lived in the palace of Ogbomoso in Oyo state.

BBC Yoruba’s Abdulwasiu Hassan said Alagba had at least two personal attendants to see to her needs and would eat only twice a month.

She was thought to have healing powers and attracted visitors from far and wide.

The revered reptile was apparently brought to the palace by the kingdom’s third leader, Isan Okumoyede, who reigned from 1770 to 1797.

However, Isan Okumoyede reigned just over 200 years ago. This means the tortoise would have already been 100 when she was found, for her to have reached the grand old age of 344

This tortoise was born in 1777. Jonathan, a Seychelles giant tortoise living on the island of Saint Helena, is reported to be about 189 years old, and may, therefore, be the oldest currently living terrestrial animal if the claim is true. Harriet, a Galápagos tortoise, died at the age of 175 years in June 2006.

Galápagos tortoises are noted to live over 150 years, but an Aldabra giant tortoise named Adwaita may have lived an estimated 255 years

Can elephants live up to 70 years?
Elephants can live up to 70 years in the wild. The truth, however, is that few reach that age. According to a 2008 study published in the journal “Science,” African elephants live a median of 56 years in the wild, while Asian elephants live about 41.7 years.

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Which animal has no brain and heart?
jellyfish
jellyfish has no ears or eyes or nose and no brain or heart! They do not even have a head. Their body is almost totally made of water and is soft having no bones at all. Jellyfish are invertebrate animals because they do not have a spine or backbone.

10 Cool things you didn’t know about jellyfish

 

1. Jellyfish are the oldest multicellular animals on the planet

Jellyfish

 

Scientists have discovered jellyfish fossil snapshots in rocks believed to be more than 500 million years old. That makes them even older than dinosaurs!

2. Jellyfish don’t have brains

Jellyfish

 

They don’t have a heart, lungs or a brain either! So how does a jellyfish live without these vital organs? Their skin is so thin that they can absorb oxygen right through it, so they don’t need lungs. They don’t have any blood so they don’t need a heart to pump it. And they respond to the changes in their environment around them using signals from a nerve net just below their epidermis – the outer layer of skin – that is sensitive to touch, so they don’t need a brain to process complex thoughts.

3. A jellyfish is called a Medusa

Jellyfish often look like a bell with tentacles all around the edge or hanging off the bottom. The shape of this bell is called a medusa because it looks like the evil Medusa in Greek mythology – a woman who had offended the goddess Athena who then changed her hair into snakes and made her face so hideous it turned people into stone. Medusa is also the word for jellyfish in many other languages including Greek, Hebrew and French.

4. Jellyfish can clone themselves

Imagine if you could just split in half and create a second version of yourself? If you cut a jellyfish in half, the pieces of the jellyfish can regenerate and turn into two new jellies.

5. Some jellyfish have teeth

Jellyfish have teeth

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The beroid comb jellyfish has hundreds of rows of “teeth” made of tiny hairs that can pierce, tear and pull their prey into their stomachs.

6. Jellyfish have gone into space

Photo: Howard Hall

In 1991, moonfish jellyfish travelled into outer space on the Space Shuttle Columbia so that scientists could examine how microgravity affected them. The jellyfish multiplied in space. When they came back to Earth, the scientists discovered that the space-born jellyfish couldn’t figure out how to deal with gravity.

7. Jellyfish never get tangled

Even though some jellyfish have very long tentacles, they never get tangled up or sting them. That’s because the tentacles are very slippery and only sting other species of jellyfish.

8. Jellyfish can have super long tentacles

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The lion’s mane jellyfish is the world’s largest jellyfish species. It can have tentacles that are over 27 meters long – longer than the size of the blue whale which is the biggest mammal in the world!

9. Jellyfish groups have a really awesome name

A bunch of jellyfish underwater

 

You might think that a gaggle of geese, a murder of crows, or a clowder of cats sounds interesting, but jellyfish groups have even better names. A group of jellyfish – which can include up to 300,000 jellyfish – is called a “bloom,” a “swarm” or a “smack.”

10. There’s not much to a jellyfish

 

Jellyfish are between 85% and 98% water. If they wash up on the beach they’ll almost disappear as their water evaporates.