jellyfish Archive

  • Mauve Stinger is Creature of the Month

    Mauve Stinger is Creature of the Month

    The Mauve Stinger, or Luminescent Jellyfish, is a beautiful jellyfish. Often coloured purple, you can find it around the world in warm and temperate waters from around 12 to 30 m. This jellyfish is the most venomous in the Mediterranean. However, its sting is usually limited to the skin surface with local pain which lasts [...]

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  • Jellyfish blooms move food energy from fish to bacteria

    Jellyfish blooms move food energy from fish to bacteria

    Over the last few years reports of jellyfish blooms around the world have been increasing. This is bad news for the marine food web, as the jellyfish are voracious predators of plankton, but are not readily consumed by other predators. New study shows that jellyfish shunt food energy from fish toward bacteria.

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