jelly

I just came across two blogs dedicated to all things jellyfish: JellyBiologist  Jellyfish Aquarist Who knew there were so many people interested in jellyfish to warrant such wonderful blogs! I admit spending a lot of my free time this weekend on these blogs reading about these fascinating creatures. I found the JellyBiologist blog on Beroe jellyfish, known for eating other jellyfish, fascinating. Here is a video of these jellies from the blog: For prior Dr. Dolittle posts on jellyfish, see: -Amazing symbiotic relationship between algae and jellyfish -Relaxing with jellyfish -Engineering…
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.