polyp

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One came when a polyp in an ocean, normally mouth-upward, developed a mutation that allowed it to topple onto its side and crawl across the seafloor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

In fact, during one of her sessions, Nyong’o injured her vocal cords, which forced her to remain silent for three months to avoid surgery for the polyp that had formed on her throat.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2024

In one sequence, marine biologists lovingly restore a rehabbed coral polyp to a reef.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2024

Using sophisticated chemical analyses, the team determined the exact biochemicals that are contained in each individual polyp and mapped them back to their respective location in the coral colony.

From Science Daily • Sep. 28, 2023

“T. nutricula is a jellyfish that can actually revert its body to the polyp stage. To its younger self!”

From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm