This little beauty was found 2.3 miles below the ocean’s surface, deep into the Mariana Trench last week, by researchers on a NOAA expedition aboard the Okeanos Explorer. Via Scientific American: Scientists believe this animal belongs to the genus Crossota, a group of jellies that does not have a sessile polyp stage; all phases of their lives […]
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Float Among the Golden Jellyfish in Palau
In May 2015, a diver filmed what he saw while snorkeling in Jellyfish Lake, a small body of water in Palau that is home to about 13 million golden jellyfish. Every morning the entire jellyfish population migrates from the east side of the lake to the west side, and then back again in the afternoon. Unlike most jellyfish, […]