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”
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video: cute but dangerous
A big thanks to @InvertebratesDC on Twitter for sharing this video. This is a beautiful and educational video by Alvaro Migotto on the jellyfish Olindias sambaquiensis.
Video: the creeping, crawling jellyfish mouth
Jellies consume prey with long “oral arms”, which are frilly projections extending form the mouth. These arms are covered with stinging cells and wrap around and… Read more “Video: the creeping, crawling jellyfish mouth”
Under Antarctic Ice, the jellyfish roam
Beautiful video of the life and death of a jellyfish. Wonderfully done by Henry Kaiser and Rob Robbins. The species is Desmonema glaciale. This genus occurs only in the colder… Read more “Under Antarctic Ice, the jellyfish roam”
Jellyfish developing
Young jellies budding from polyps in the species Podocoryna carnea. Click here to learn more about where jellyfish come from.
This video is also featured in a wonderful blog hosted by the Dunn lab at Brown University called creaturecast.org
First post!
I hope that this blog will serve as a resource for all those interested in biology and jellies (with occasional bits of other fun stuff thrown in). I’ll be… Read more “First post!”
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