Mauve stingers jellies can appear on coast by the thousands, literally overnight. This may come as no surprise to salmon farms off Ireland, or tourists in France and Spain. But where do these mauve stingers coming from? How can thousands of animals just show up, as if out… Read More ›
(This post first appeared at deepseanews.com) Why send jellies to space? Well, because it’s awesome (true for anything in space), but mostly because of little crystals jellies keep in their bodies, and what these crystals can tell us about long-term human… Read More ›
Everywhere. When you go to the beach, you’re not swimming in ocean water, your swimming in ocean water plus the sperm and eggs of millions of sea animals. Many species, jellies included, are broadcast spawners. With few exceptions, they don’t… Read More ›
The editor of deepseanews.com was kind enough to invite me to write a post for them. This post appears on their site at: http://deepseanews.com/2013/07/are-jellyfish-immortal/ and is reblogged here. A species of jelly, Turritopsis dohrnii, is able to cheat death, curling into a… Read More ›
I get email alerts whenever anyone mentions jellyfish in a research article, and most of the time these alerts do not result in days of emotional confusion. But for almost two weeks I’ve been tiptoeing around this paper. Reading parts, feeling both angry and… Read More ›
The famous line uttered by Joe from Friends echoes down through jelly lore: But is that really all it takes? Does urine really help with a jellyfish sting? From first hand experience I can tell you pee don’t do much, which is… Read More ›
The first time I saw jellyfish on a menu I thought it was slang for something else. Like dragon noodles. Clearly you are not ordering noodles made out of dragon (that would be unethical). As I learned the hard way, it… Read More ›
