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|| “a jellyfish expert” (not actually) || minor || jellyfish blog

[jellyexpert]

🪼introduction🪼

hello, im jelly!!

im a minor and a deep lover of jellyfish!!

i love all jellies but my personal favorite is the atolla jellyfish

i probably wont make many posts myself but will try anyways

feel free to ask me any questions about jellyfish or even submit jellyfish species to talk about (and i will include EVERY detail i find)

i dont talk very scientifically but i will be sure to clarify whatever i need to!

!!! IM SORRY IF I GET MY FACTS WRONG !! I DONT KNOW EVERYTHING !!

🪼hope to see you around !!🪼

[cuunos]

jellyfish lifecycles piss me off a little bit

[cuunos]

you don't have to do that. you can just not do that

[eddieintheocean]

:D they can do more :D (x)

[boofinator]

jellyfish... perchance..... *looks at you with my big wet eyes*

Jellies!

[alexriesart]

Two pieces of real world anatomy art I did for fun many years ago!

About as alien as you can get.

[heartnosekid]

rainbow tripod fish larva (bathypterois grallator) | source

[gooselycharm]

started reading princess jellyfish 

[hypersensationalism]

why is nobody talking about how its halloween tomorrow

[mbari-blog]

Giants lurk in the ocean’s mysterious midwaters.

While surveying the Gumdrop Seamount off the central California coast in 1998, MBARI staff spotted an unusual—and exceptionally large—jelly. This crimson creature was a full meter across. Unlike jellies that dwell near the ocean’s surface, this one didn’t have tentacles. Instead, a cluster of finger-like oral arms dangled beneath its bulky bell.

A closer look confirmed this was a new species—and one that had actually eluded our scientists five years earlier. Detailed video observations captured by our robotic submersibles helped MBARI researcher George Matsumoto and his colleagues in California and Japan formally describe this unusual jelly. They named it Tiburonia granrojo in honor of MBARI’s now-retired remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Tiburon, which was instrumental in documenting this delicate drifter in its natural environment.

Scientists have since spotted this jelly across the Pacific Ocean, from Baja California to Hawaii to Japan. That something so big remained undiscovered for so long shows how little we’ve explored the deep sea—and what more must be out there waiting to be found.

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Tourists recently spotted the 30-foot-long invertebrate in shallow waters off Antarctica.

Extremely rare phantom jellyfish caught on camera

PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK NIESINK

[mbari-blog]

Meet the psychedelic jelly

This jelly’s vibrant colors and far-out appearance clued scientists into a unique find.

Of all the jellies that call the ocean’s midnight zone home, the psychedelic jelly (Crossota millsae) is one of the most stunning. Its wildly colorful appearance—ruby red, bright orange, and electric purple—first tipped off scientists that they had found a previously unknown species.

But a closer look offered scientists another surprise: This species is one of a handful of jellies that bear live young.

The female psychedelic jelly broods her babies on those crimson canals that radiate out inside her bell. Mom carries more than a single baby at once.

The developing young get their nutrition from mom. In their shelter beneath her bell, the little jellies grow bigger and bigger, even sprouting tentacles while still attached to their mother. 

When the juvenile jelly outgrows its shelter, it pulses free and swims off to live on its own. As the juvenile grows, its lavender color fades, developing the tangerine pigmentation typical of adults.

[bethanythebogwitch]

Tiburonia granrojo or the big red jellyfish is a giant (up to 76 cm/30 in in bell diameter) deep-sea jellyfish that is the only known member of its genus and subfamily. It is unique for having a series of thick feeding arms instead of the usual jellyfish tentacles and for being known from only 23 sightings and 1 capture from around the Pacific. My favorite fact about it is that the scientist who discovered it, George Matsumoto, was going to give it "big ugly" as a species name but his wife thought that was mean and convinced him to change it to "granrojo", meaning "big red" in Spanish.

(image id: a large, round, red jellyfish. Instead of the usual stinging tentacles, it possess 6 visible thick arms extending from the bottom of the bell. )

[rebeccarhelm]

The lost jellyfish art of Ilona Richter, from Anita Brinckmann-Voss's 1970 book on jellyfish of the Mediterranean Sea...

[noosphe-re]

An extraordinary deep-sea sighting: The giant phantom jelly (MBARI Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)

[typhlonectes]

[requiem-on-water]

“The jellyfish doesn’t actively move anywhere; it’s just moved with the tides.”

by Nikolay Kovalenko, Uriel Soberanes, Vino Li, Vania Medina, kaaaka liang

[gidrosfera]

[catinthedicebag]

I have expanded my selection of embroidery patterns with different animals. Here we have a jellyfish! Its very spakly with gold thread. What do you think?

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