Aliens? Squishies? Deformed Plastic? Jellyfish? Many descriptors have accompanied the emails, texts, and Facebook messages that have recently flooded my cellular device, all describing one unique…
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Tag: Cnidaria
These are a few of my favorite species: Hermit crabs without shells
Hermit crabs are generally awesome. They use snail shells, and sometime shells of other mollsucs, to protect their non-skeletonized squishy backends. Some are even adapted…
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The Ocean’s Gelantinous Christmas Tinsel
The above photo is of Apolemia lanosa a type of siphonophore belonging to phylum Cnidaria that also includes corals and jellies. It’s basically the ocean’s…
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Solving the Mystery of the Placental Jellyfish
Yesterday the DSN crew first saw the video above. What is this large floating sheet of goo? Is it alive? Was it once alive? The…
View More Solving the Mystery of the Placental JellyfishTGIF: Portuguese Man-O-War Feeding
Despite being stung by one of them on a Gulf beach as a kid, Portugese Man-O-War’s are still one of my favorite organisms. Hat tip…
View More TGIF: Portuguese Man-O-War FeedingNew Fossil Anemone Reveals Innard Secrets
Continuing its trend as one of the top destinations for out-of-this-world fossil finds, China is yielding yet another piece to the evolutionary jigsaw puzzle. In…
View More New Fossil Anemone Reveals Innard SecretsThe Tide Pool: New Jelly, Misplaced 6-Gill, Old Ostracods
KAZ – A new occasional series modeled from Ed Yong’s Pocket Science where I will briefly report a few cool studies and tell you why…
View More The Tide Pool: New Jelly, Misplaced 6-Gill, Old OstracodsSay Hello to My Little Friend
What looks like a worm, is completely symmetrical in cross-section, and in the words of Dr. Peter Holland: “It has no mouth, no gut, no…
View More Say Hello to My Little FriendCnidarian Lifeforms
Cnidarian Lifeforms from Delrious on Vimeo. Hat tip to Penguin Wanderings.
View More Cnidarian LifeformsFriday Freak 10/16/09 – Gersemia juliepackardae
TGIF IS DEAD LONG LIVE TGIF! Craig and I are making some changes around these parts. You’ll notice them soon enough. One change starts now.…
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