Boing Boing » ocean biology http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Fri, 24 May 2013 18:47:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Video of cool undersea jelly blob http://boingboing.net/2012/05/17/video-of-cool-undersea-jelly-b.html http://boingboing.net/2012/05/17/video-of-cool-undersea-jelly-b.html#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 14:00:15 +0000 Mark Frauenfelder http://boingboing.net/?p=161333
[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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Apparently, October 19 was Hagfish Day. I nearly missed it. But please enjoy this video and celebrate for the next hour. Also recommended: This song about hagfish.

Video Link

Video via Creaturecast

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