PHOTO IN THE NEWS: New "Rainbow Glow" Jellyfish Found

nationalgeographic ^ | March 16, 2009

[JoeProBono]

Look on the bright side—this luminous new jellyfish species doesn't sting.

Jellyfish expert Lisa Gershwin caught the unnamed species in early March while swimming near a jetty off the Australian island of Tasmania with a "phototank"—a small aquarium that makes it easy to photograph sea life.

The jellyfish does not emit its own light, as bioluminescent creatures do. Rather, its rainbow glow emanates from light reflecting off the creature's cilia, small hairlike projections that beat simultaneously to move te jellyfish through the water.

[JoeProBono]

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Great, the world’s first gay jellyfish.

"Is that so wrrroooong?"

[hedgetrimmer]

Actually the most accurate name is Julie Packard’s Fish Prison.

[Slings and Arrows]

"Dooooood, where's the rave?"

[JoeProBono]

[Slings and Arrows]

He’s got his glowsticks and his candy necklace - now all he needs is some E.

[Daffynition]

"You mean the Monterey Bay Fish Prison, don’t you?" :-)

Please guys, get with the program ...have you forgotten that PETA has declared fish now to be called Sea Kittens?

So, if I may be so bold, we need to correct:

"You mean the Monterey Bay Sea Kitten Prison, don’t you?" ;-)

[Daffynition]

Don't ask....don't tell.

[SunkenCiv]

If it’s edible, the Japanese will clear the seas of every last one of them in a couple of years.

[the long march]

I am so out of date ....;)

[Travis T. OJustice]

Great, the world’s first gay jellyfish.

Fortunately I did NOT have coffee in my mouth when I read that.

No kidding! Great line.