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I was taking some pictures to use on a poster I'll be presenting on my Masters work at a conference. These are unusable for that purpose, but I thought they were pretty, so I decided to share them. Obviously I'm not a photographer. These were taken under low light and then brightened up in Picasa.
They are Aurelia aurita ephyra (the juvenile form of the common Moon jellyfish). Each one is about 2mm across. They looked like they were performing some kind of complex interpretive dance. About rejection? Or love? Or failure? Or joy? Or fear? Who knows.
They are Aurelia aurita ephyra (the juvenile form of the common Moon jellyfish). Each one is about 2mm across. They looked like they were performing some kind of complex interpretive dance. About rejection? Or love? Or failure? Or joy? Or fear? Who knows.
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Beautiful creatures. It's amazing what forms nature comes up with. They look to me like a cross between a translucent flower and a sci-fi satellite dish. Is the orange coloring reflected light or bio-luminescence? Do your studies as a biologist entail going to sea, diving and observing/collecting specimen such as these? Or do you mainly work in a lab with specimen supplied by others? Have you ever been in a submarine? 
I used to live in Saudi Arabia, and once a year or so there would be a mass swarm of white jellyfish that would float in to shore and beach themselves along parts of the coast of the Persian Gulf (a place called Half Moon Bay in particular). They varied in size from a few inches to over a foot across, had an opaque white color, a dome shaped head and short tentacles that had painful stings. There would be thousands upon thousands of them, in the water and washed up in the sand, making it impossible to get in the water and swim for fear of being stung. I've been scared of jellies ever since I (foolishly) tried to swim among them as a kid.
I used to live in Saudi Arabia, and once a year or so there would be a mass swarm of white jellyfish that would float in to shore and beach themselves along parts of the coast of the Persian Gulf (a place called Half Moon Bay in particular). They varied in size from a few inches to over a foot across, had an opaque white color, a dome shaped head and short tentacles that had painful stings. There would be thousands upon thousands of them, in the water and washed up in the sand, making it impossible to get in the water and swim for fear of being stung. I've been scared of jellies ever since I (foolishly) tried to swim among them as a kid.