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Chael β Transparent immortality
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Think living forever is fiction? Think again. There is a species of jellyfish that has attained biological immortality.Here it is in mer-form. Turritopsis nutricula holds one of the world's most fascinating and sought after secrets.
I have quite a few of these transparent mer studies of various species, they are very fun to do. I wonder if I should post more of them.
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(shudders) If I ever see these kind of things in real life
I'd be freaking and saying how cool it is too
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Chael, would you be willing to enable a print on this?
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i looove your artwork!! <3 it gives me some inspriration and i would love it if you would post more there sooo beautiful!!! 
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a terrifying picture--something in a nightmare--great design!
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wow amazing drawing ^^
hmm really interesting animal ^^
immortal ^^
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I heard several other species of aquatic life also have forms of "immortality"
Supposedly without disease or being killed lobsters can potentially live forever.
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Cyclical immortality, huh? That's wicked awesome! The Cnidarians sure are interesting.
Nice concept ^^ I look forward to more!
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i love all your artwork. but personally i think this is your best picture yet. keep up the good work !
best wishes-
shizuku-shinigami
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beautiful work! Your jelly-mers are always astounding. I really like how all the tentacles are so free flowwing and almost stylized in how they swirl around in some places. My only crit is that a border of some kind would help pull everything together and present it better, but then again, I am a border/frame fiend. XD
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Very nicely done transparency! I also like the subject material you chose. I was under the assumption that all species die of old age eventually, so this is very interesting.
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This is incredible worlk. I love the pose, the detail, and the transparency.
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Can I marry you? Please?
I am in love with your drawings and the fact that you love Marine life!
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Cool. It's like the physical idealization of reincarnation.
And I love the transparency and glowing effects of your mer-jelly.
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wow..
there is actually something that's immortal...
amazing jelly by the way
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C'est stupΓ©fiant! tres tres tres belle! je l'adore!
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post some more chael! i love it, transparent mers are so fun
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That is insanely cool - Hurrah for squishy immortals
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Biologically Immortal?
Holy crap
thats a really interesting animal xD
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I never believed that an animal could revert from a sexually mature state back into a sexually immature state like this... that's incredible! Thank you for sharing this amazing bit of information!
The mer of this species looks great, too; the transparency effect is done very well.
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Aequorea? Yeah, they are related to this species actually. My favorites so far are a glowing deep sea jelly and the purple striped pelagia. I may do a more refined pic of these two later.
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Ah, they're closely related? Nice. 
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Wow...it looks kinda insane, like a mad scientist. Haha...
Yes, yes...post more!
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Woah far out. The picture and the little factoid
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I love your work and the comments you supply with it! I get to see beautiful art AND learn something at the same time!
That jelly is amazing. Immortal jelly fish...
they're gonna take over the world o.o
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The art is amazing, and so is the creature - thanks for the link AND the art!
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oh wow... firstly, you rendered the transparency beautifully. O_O. secondly, how utterly facinating! i never heard of a creature that goes back and forth between under and fully developed Oo;. that's gonna boggle my mind for a while. thirdly, OF COURSE you should post more!
how are you doing, anyway? it's been a while since we've spoken. ;_:
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This is beautiful. I hope you post more of these.
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wow, a rendition of the jellyfish girl. Looks great
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It is not really a girl, more a genderless type creature.
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*shrugs* well, then it is kinda hard for that speicies to reproduce then XD lol
but besides that, it looks nice
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Not really. Ever hear of asexual reproduction or hermaphroditism? Many sea animals have other was to reproduce than separate males or females...
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that is just so wicked.
maybe i should be one of those jellyfish. x)
yet again, maybe not..
nice work ^^
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that is an amazing artwork, and YES PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! post more ^^
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