A compound found in sunscreen, is delaying the development of some jellyfish larvae, finds a new study from the University of Georgia. Drs Bill Fitt and Dietrich Hofmann tested the ability of jellyfish larvae to swim and metamorphosis, and found…
Jellyfish Prove You Don’t Need A Brain To Sleep
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have recently discovered genes that induce and regulate sleep may be much older than previously described. The team studied the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea to determine if these animals, which lack a centralized nervous system, still require…
Reef Aquatica shares captive bred Upside-Down Jellyfish with the world
[youtube width=”640″ height=”510″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y3do0FplJ0[/youtube] Hubert Chan, owner of Reef Aquatica in Toronto, Canada, shared this incredible video showing dozens of spontaneously captive-bred Upside-Down Jellyfish, Cassiopea sp. If video isn’t proof enough Hubert tells us that these jellies are on display in…
