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Jellyfish Lake in Palau is filled to the brim with golden jellyfish -- and instead of avoiding the creatures, brave travelers flock to join them. English teacher John Hawkins got the opportunity ...
Every morning, jellyfish swim towards the surface of the water to reach the sunlight. Not only do they love sunlight, but they need it to survive. They feed off the algae that grows in the lake
The rarely encountered deep-sea jellyfish Stygiomedusa gigantea is another candidate for "largest jellyfish", with its thick, massive bell up to 100 cm (3 ft 3 in) wide, and four thick, "strap-like" oral arms extending up to 6 m (19 + 1 ⁄ 2 ft) in length, very different from the typical fine, threadlike tentacles that rim the umbrella of more ...
Stygiomedusa gigantea, commonly known as the giant phantom jelly, is the only species in the monotypic genus of deep sea jellyfish, Stygiomedusa. It is in the Ulmaridae family. [2] With only around 110 sightings in 110 years, it is a jellyfish that is rarely seen, but believed to be widespread throughout the world, with the exception of the ...
The spotted jelly (Mastigias papua), lagoon jelly, golden medusa, or Papuan jellyfish, is a species of jellyfish from the Indo-Pacific oceans. Like corals, sea anemones, and other sea jellies, it belongs to the phylum Cnidaria. Mastigias papua is one of the numerous marine animals living in symbiosis with zooxanthellae, a photosynthetic alga. [2]
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Octopuses swim headfirst, with arms trailing behind Jellyfish pulsate their bell for a type of jet locomotion Scallops swim by clapping their two shells open and closed Main article: Jet propulsion Jet propulsion is a method of aquatic locomotion where animals fill a muscular cavity and squirt out water to propel them in the opposite direction ...
Chrysaora fuscescens, the Pacific sea nettle or West Coast sea nettle, is a widespread planktonic scyphozoan cnidarian—or medusa, "jellyfish" or "jelly"—that lives in the northeastern Pacific Ocean, in temperate to cooler waters off of British Columbia and the West Coast of the United States, ranging south to México.