Video: the creeping, crawling jellyfish mouth
Jellies consume prey with long “oral arms”, which are frilly projections extending form the mouth. These arms are coveredContinue Reading
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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 speciesContinue Reading
Jellyfish developing
Young jellies budding from polyps in the species Podocoryna carnea. See a full description of a jelly life cycle in my last post, “Where do jellyfish come from” (https://jellybiologist.wordpress.com/2012/07/29/where-do-jellies-come-from/)
This video is also featured in a wonderful blog hosted by the Dunn lab at Brown University (http://creaturecast.org/archives/1618-more-budding-jelly-babies)
Where do jellyfish come from?
In some ways, jellies are a lot like people– they grow from fragile embryos to mature adults, and most speciesContinue Reading
First post!
I hope that this blog will serve as a resource for all those interested in biology and jellies (with occasional bits ofContinue Reading
