1.any stinging, jellylike marine cnidarian of the classScyphozoa,living in the developmental stage as a tiny attached polyp and in the adult stage as a large free-floating medusa with trailing tentacles. 2.an indecisive or weak person.
They aren’t actually fish. They can make copies of themselves. And some older ones can become young again.
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12.But jellyfish love a warm ocean, the chemicals don’t hurt jellyfish one bit, and they carry all the oxygen they need right inside their watery selves. 13.Until I stood in that basement room looking at jellyfish on the other side of the glass. ...
Contact with a jellyfish tentacle can trigger millions of nematocysts to pierce the skin and inject venom, yet the sting of only some jellyfish species causes an adverse reaction in humans. When a nematocyst is triggered by contact by predator or prey, pressure builds up rapidly inside it up...
Jellyfish sperm with stingers that fire inside femalesdoi:10.1016/s0262-4079(19)31414-9Michael MarshallReed Business InformationNew Scientist
Its body is bell-shaped and transparent with a minuscule height of 0.18 inches and a diameter of 0.18 to 0.4 inches, making it smaller than a pinky nail. Its body is mostly taken up by its stomach which is vibrant red and has a cruciform shape in its cross-section. Inside their ...
Most jellyfish have just a single layer of cells on the outside of their jelly bodies and another single layer on the inside. These jellyfish have a double layer of cells in both places. This is still very thin compared to most other animals but it is a notable difference between comb ...
SYDNEY — An Australian ocean photographer captured a one-in-a-million example of the cruelty of life in the deep — a fish peering out into the ocean, helpless, from inside a jellyfish. Tim Samuel, a self-described “ocean obsessed … lover of photograp
There was a lot of confusion even inside the scientific community between the three types of turritopsis jellyfish: the dohrnii, the nutricula and the rubra. Simply put, the turritopsis genus can be found in many parts of the world and it it is not an easy task to differentiate between the...