The giant red jelly Tiburonia granrojo lives in the “midwater”– a huge black space that stretches from the edge of the warm sunlit surface, to the cold abyssal floor.  George… Read more “Jellyfish video: The giant red jellyfish; there is so much left to be discovered”

I was watching these Chrysaora pacifica (Japanese sea nettle) strobilae pulse along in their little lab bowl, when all of a sudden one of the jelly babies popped off and… Read more “Jellyfish video: Time to let go”

This very rare and wonderful picture from South West Norway shows polyps going through the process of strobilation (you can learn more about this process here). This photograph was… Read more “The jellyfish are coming!”

Jellies, like their coral cousins, serve as a habitat to many ocean creatures.  These fish are using this rare Thysanostoma jelly as a traveling shelter. Here you can see… Read more “Jellies as traveling reefs”

Video: Radiohead meets jellies in this great video by Sarosh Jacob. Golden jellies (Mastigias sp.) tend to their gardens of algae in a quiet Palau lake. Their alga gardens are within their bodies… Read more “Video: Golden jellies, Radiohead and gardens of algae”

A leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriaceaeating) eating thimble jellyfish (Linuche unguiculata) This is a great video accompanying a nice paper on turtles and jellies [here]. Leatherbacks are obligate predators of jellies.  Despite… Read more “video: a giant among the jellies, leatherback turtle in jellyfish soup”