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The Lion’s Mane Jellyfish in the White Sea, Russia.

Marine biologist and photographer Alexander Semenov calls the lion’s mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata) the queen of the Arctic seas. He photographed this specimen in its final stage of life: Having reproduced, it has shrunk in size, digested or shed its hundreds of long tentacles, and become, in Semenov’s words, an “Alien flower.”