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This Thanksgiving, break the ice by telling your family and friends how baby octopuses sometimes ride on jellyfish like little hats...[a thread]
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It all began in 1957 when a scientist was SLAPPED by a jellyfish-wielding octopus. He published his harrowing tale in the prestigious journal science, and this is where our octopus story begins ...
study: jstor.org/stable/1710225
📸 Linda Ianniello: bit.ly/3dfSydC
study: jstor.org/stable/1710225
📸 Linda Ianniello: bit.ly/3dfSydC
...Baby female blanket octopuses live in the open ocean and use jellyfish as a weapon. When they're grown, they develop a stunning cape over 6 feet long. Males are 10,000 times smaller than females and ride jellies their whole lives. BUT...
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The world is in desperate need of some cute right now. So here's a thread of marine animals being adorable.
Video by: bit.ly/2W9d7CO
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First up! Look at these baby golden jellies trying so hard! They've gotta swim fast because they're filter feeders, and fast swimming = happy eating!
Next, the leaf sheep are coming! These little friend-shaped slugs (technically not nudibranchs) have two little eyes to peer into your soul with their cuteness...
A THREAD 🧵OF STUNNING JELLYFISH ART by Ilona Richter, from Anita Brinckmann-Voss's 1970 book on Mediterranean jellyfish...
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Stunning jellyfish from the Gulf of Naples
Top: Jalithiara formosa
Middle: Pandes conica
Bottom: Neoturris pileata
Top: Jalithiara formosa
Middle: Pandes conica
Bottom: Neoturris pileata
Top-hat like jellyfish from Gulf of Naples
Top: Merga tergestina
Middle: Leuckartiara nobilis
Bottom: Merga galleri
Top: Merga tergestina
Middle: Leuckartiara nobilis
Bottom: Merga galleri
Meet the animal that sweats snot and has explosive sex! Open to read more ⬇️
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GOOD MORNING #ScienceTwitter - hold on to your butts, b/c it's the best day of the year: #NationalSeaJellyDay! I did a thread for NSJD last year but that was before I understood how to construct threads so let's do it properly this year (1/24)
Starting off, let's take a look at how cool this alternation of generations in the typical scyphozoan jelly life cycle is: (2/24)
But why scyphozoan jellyfish - what does that even mean? There are lots of critters in the Phylum Cnidaria, separated into Classes.
Anthozoa: our anemones and corals! Like this aggregating anemone (Anthopleura elegantissima), anthozoans look like upside-down jellies (3/24)
Anthozoa: our anemones and corals! Like this aggregating anemone (Anthopleura elegantissima), anthozoans look like upside-down jellies (3/24)
