by RRHelm November 15, 2012 9 Uncategorized 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
by RRHelm November 4, 2012 5 Uncategorized 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
by RRHelm October 13, 2012 Number of comments0 Uncategorized Jellyfish developing http://vimeo.com/12949246# 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)
by RRHelm July 29, 2012 7 Anatomy Development Most Popular 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
by RRHelm July 23, 2012 6 Uncategorized 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