Jellyfish Jumble
by Wes and Dotty Weber
Title
Jellyfish Jumble
Artist
Wes and Dotty Weber
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Photograph - Photography
Description
Jellyfish or sea jellies are free-swimming marine animals with umbrella-shaped bells and trailing tentacles. Jellyfish is the common name of the medusa phase which are mostly a gelatinous being. The bell pulsates creating a propulsion to make them mobile. The tentacles have stinging cells that is used to catch their prey and also as a defense. The Jellyfish life cycle consists of the medusa which is the sexual phase then the planula larva which is dispersed widely and then is followed by a sedentary polyp phase. The medusae of most species mature within a few months and die soon after breeding, but the polyp stage, attached to the seabed, may be much more long-lived. Jellyfish have been in existence for at least 500 million years and possibly 700 million years or more, making them the oldest multi-organ animal group.
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January 14th, 2019
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