From National Geographic’s new Translucent Creatures photo gallery: A hydromedusa spreads its luminescent tentacles in the Weddell Sea near Antarctica. Photograph by Ingo Arndt/Minden Pictures. This medusa is like totally coming at me like a spider monkey with those nunchuk tentacles. Meet some of its friends below the fold! . . . → Read More: Friday Deep Sea Picture: Ninja Hydromedusa!
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By Kevin Zelnio, on  July 4th, 2008  One comment  Adaptations, Organisms, Pictures and Movies  Antarctica, Bristleworm, Hydromedusa, jelly, National Geographic, Polychaete, Shrimp, Weddell Sea, worm By Kevin Zelnio, on June 30th, 2008 6 comments Adaptations, Conservation & Environment, New Research, Organisms Asexual, Ballast, Best of Zelnio, Dispersal, Genetics, Heterochrony, Hydroid, Hydromedusa, Invasion, Medusa, Phenotypic Plasticity, Polyp, Reproduction, Transdifferentiation, Turritopsis Dr. Maria Pia Miglietta, a postdoc in my lab at Penn State, just published a fascinating paper on a “silent invasion” happening around the world’s oceans in the journal Biological Invasions. Those may look like tentacles, but in reality they are the nunchuks of rapid expansion of a stealthy marine invasion. Intonjutsu: Cheating Death In . . . → Read More: Hydromedusa Mounts Ninja Style Invasion
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