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• Blaschka Glass Jellies

  By RRHelm on March 7, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Happy Tuesday all! Enjoy some beautiful jelly art by the amazing Blaschka brothers! (All images are from Wikimedia Commons)    

• This deep-sea jelly looks like something from a dream

  By RRHelm on February 25, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  A beautiful jelly was just sighted by the Ocean Explorer as they cruise the deep sea near American Samoa live at oceanexplorer.noaa.gov. According to Dr. Allen Collins–a zoologist at NOAA and the Smithsonian–this little jelly is a rhopalonematid trachymedusa. I’ve been lucky enough to see a few… Read More ›

• TurtleCam shows what it’s like to hunt jellies

  By RRHelm on December 8, 2016 • ( 2 )

  Pretty amazing turtle footage, pretty rough for the jellies….  

• Gelatinous fishes

  By RRHelm on July 29, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Very cool video here! Eel larvae are a great example of an animal with a backbone that also happens to be gelatinous. And as someone who doesn’t spend a lot of time thinking about fishfish, I learned a few fishy facts too! link… Read More ›

• What are these giant tube-shaped animals showing up in the Azores?

  By RRHelm on July 5, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  So on June 7th I was all, ‘Facebook, what’s happening today?’ and as I’m scrolling through my feed I see this picture–posted by a scuba diver from a small group of islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean called… Read More ›

• Reblog: How time-poor scientists inadvertently made it seem like the world was overrun with jellyfish

  By RRHelm on July 3, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  A very interesting article on how jellyfish might not be taking over the world, even if the idea did. When is a jellyfish plague not (necessarily) a jellyfish plague? When time-poor scientists selectively cite the literature to make it look… Read More ›

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