jellyfish
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A collaged print by Liu Shiyuan presents a dizzying array of images—fruit, bees, jellyfish, shrouded figures, fabric samples—that is more disorienting than anything else.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
France on Wednesday recorded a more than 20 percent shortfall in nuclear power production capacity, a record deficit caused by environmentally related outages linked to drought, extreme heat and a jellyfish invasion.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
C3 is an evolutionarily ancient protein found even in simple animals such as sponges and jellyfish.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
Especially when, after telling Max that she is going snorkeling, Sara gets left behind amid a bloom of jellyfish right out of “Finding Nemo.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
One hundred fifty million stings a year is equal to almost 411,000 stings every day, which is equal to 17,000 jellyfish stings every hour.
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
These showed body plans different from any animals alive today, although some seem to be related to worms and jellyfishes.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2018
“We need to clearly acknowledge that jellyfishes and other gelatinous organisms may be a regular prey for a variety of marine predators.”
From National Geographic ● Sep. 15, 2017
Both squishy and elastic, jellyfishes can snap like a rubber band over a short periods of time span and ooze like goo over longer periods.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 24, 2015
Expect giraffes and zebras, but also Komodo dragons, jellyfishes and newts for a dash of originality.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 1, 2013
The gonophores of many of the species become free jellyfishes; those of other species remain permanently attached as medusoid buds or sporosacs.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section T, U, V, and W by Project Gutenberg
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Reef Awareness Day, List 1
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