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Sir, a Bloodbelly Comb has decloaked and is firing on the Zooillogix!

Category: bioluminescence • jellyfish
Posted on: October 30, 2009 11:37 AM, by ableiman

Beautiful and fascinating footage of a Bloodbelly Comb (not a jellyfish, but similarly gelatinous, like my brother) from the Monterey Bay Aquarium's remote operated vehicle. The laser light show comes from tiny transparent, hair-like cilia combined with trace amounts of LSD that will forever remain in your spine.

I could point out that it appears Deep Sea News ran this a few days ago, but we're not talking to them anymore since they went all "academic" on us... I bet they don't even have any shirts with wolves on them.

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Deep Sea News bowed to academic peer pressure not to sell t-shirts with wolves on them? Those spineless jellyfish!

Posted by: Mike Olson | October 30, 2009 3:16 PM

The video is even better if you imagine the voice of Patrick Stewart in the background say, "The ocean...the final frontier. These are the voyages of the bloodbelly comb..."

Posted by: American Delight | October 31, 2009 8:04 AM

Love the Patrick Stewart idea! I'll ask around to see if we have any connections for a remix.

(If you like the video -- and tshirts with wolves -- we have some cool Halloween e-cards this year: www.montereybayaquarium.org. wolf eels and bloodybelly comb jelly among the options.)

Posted by: Ken Peterson | October 31, 2009 10:19 AM

I could point out that it appears Deep Sea News ran this a few days ago, but we're not talking to them anymore since they went all "academic" on us... I bet they don't even have any shirts with wolves on them.

I thought we had become less academic. And why would I wear a shirt with an vertebrate? Especially one from land?

Posted by: Dr. M | November 1, 2009 6:23 PM

a horror - it looks just like giant blood-colored silicon implants

Posted by: milkshake | November 2, 2009 6:38 AM

Deep Sea News bowed to academic peer pressure not to sell t-shirts with wolves on them? Those spinel.

Posted by: porno izle | November 2, 2009 4:18 PM

YouTube then offered the Monterey Bay Aquarium clip of a sea otter playing the piano. The little bugger has more musical talent that I do!

Posted by: william e emba | November 2, 2009 6:28 PM

They need to have E.S. Posthumus being played as background music.

Posted by: Erik | November 4, 2009 12:09 AM

thank you.

Posted by: FrmClub | November 6, 2009 9:39 PM