Video of cool undersea jelly blob

[Video Link] Steve Haddock, a research scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (as well as a MAKE contributor, and co-author of a great book called Practical Computing for Biologists) just posted this video about a weird and wonderful jelly called the scyphomedusa Deepstaria.

If you like what you see here, visit Jellywatch, Steve's citizen-science website about jellies.

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Cool!
Rich Keller

Niiiiice!

Seeing this video makes me wish I were a hot glass artist so I could create really sweet ctenophore sculptures.
corydodt

“This is not a ghost or trash” should be a lyric in a hip-hop song.
skabob

The name of the research scientist at Monterrey Bay Aquarium is… a fish? How fitting. Makes me think of Marcel Proust:

I am not a looney! Why should I be tied with the epithet looney merely because I have a pet halibut? I’ve heard tell that Sir Gerald Nabardo has a pet prawn called Simon and you wouldn’t call him a looney; furthermore, Dawn Pailthorpe, the lady show-jumper, had a clam, called Stafford, after the late Chancellor, Allan Bullock has two pikes, both called Chris, and Marcel Proust had an haddock! So, if you’re calling the author of ‘A la recherche du temps perdu’ a looney, I shall have to ask you to step outside!
nomad13

A marine biologist named Haddock? I believe I may have found my new God.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Freethinkersanon Christopher

Every time I see jellyfish I wish I’d actually pursued my childhood dream of becoming a marine biologist. And wonder whether it isn’t too late…
- Rich Keller
  
  I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was a kid. There’s plenty of ocean out there with life yet to be discovered.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XDXCHOC3MSV5MBEOPV76POG7EE Jonathan
  
  And here I am trying to get OUT of marine biology ;)
  - http://www.youtube.com/user/Freethinkersanon Christopher
    
    Hey, maybe we could trade! I’ve always thought there should be a jobs exchange program to help people broaden their experiences. Interested in working in a library?