Posted on 10/22/2013 3:58:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Jellyfish are taking over the world, scientists say. They are reproducing too much and not dying enough. They are clogging up power plants. They are messing with fishing hauls. They are making it unpleasant to swim at beaches. The nature of that unpleastness ranges from mild discomfort to death.
Here are some of the things worth loving and fearing about jellyfish — the strange, beautiful creatures from the deep that may soon rule us all.
1. They have crazy anatomy
Jellyfish are very cool, biologically. They don't have brains. They don't have hearts. They are mostly water. You're going to want read up on your Jellyfish anatomy, locomotion, and life cycle to prepare for their imminent world domination. Start by consulting this chart so you know what part of the jellyfish is eating you and what part is stinging you.
2. They do color well
Jellyfish look awesome in aquarium tanks that have colorful lights. In these tanks, they entrance us with their beauty and lull us into a false sense that we are their masters. Moon Jellyfish look especially cool.
Like these little guys at the Beijing Aquarium. (Interesting color choice, China. I see what you did there.)
Here's a subtly lit friend at the Stralsund Oceanarium in Germany:
This jelly at the Grand Aquarium of Saint-Malo in Western France seems too beautiful to be plotting your destruction. Right? Wrong.
Hopefully the lighting will be nice when jellyfish put us in tanks for their viewing pleasure. 3. There so many different kinds!
There are so many different kinds of jellyfish. When their powers combine... Here's a Lion’s Mane jellyfish, looking like a bad hair day off Farne Island, England.
Shoulda had someone pee on it.
A shame they don’t taste like crab or lobster.
May a box of box jellyfish infest your bathtub. (snicker)
Is the jellyfish sashimi shown in the article (towards the bottom of the page) garnished with a pot leaf?
That’s already happened...the filthy little beggar. Took a long time to get him out of my nasal system.
Never ate jelly fish, tried snails once but I nearly broke a tooth on the shells. Tried oysters and clams too but they kept trying to climb back up my throat, guess the lemon juice only blinded them.
I’ll stick with the canned tuna, after six or seven years sitting on the shelf of the local market you know nothing is alive in that rusty can.
Are jelly fish edible?
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