Researchers just published their discovery of four types of well-preserved fossil jellyfish in the open-access journal PLoS ONE (go Bora). The jellies are from about a half a billion years ago and not much seems to have changed in their physiology. Utah, of course, is no longer under the sea. See if you prefer this image from the journal:
Or this image from The New York Times:
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How utterly spineless.
But delicious!
all good things come from Utah.
Nice posts keep it up