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Last week, a video of this mysterious blob floating 5000 feet under the sea was all over the Internet. Was it a whale placenta? A jellyfish? After some collective ooing and aahing, folks on the interwebs put their thinking hats on. Craig McClain at Deep Sea News dug through the literature and found a 1988 paper describing just such a jellyfish, calling it Deepstaria reticulum.

Now the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute has posted a stunning video of Deepstaria jellyfish. Watch it to learn more about Deepstaria—and to look at pretty images. Win win for a Friday afternoon.

Researchers have created a robotic jellyfish, named Robojelly, which not only exhibits characteristics ideal to use in underwater search and rescue operations, but could, theoretically at least, never run out of energy thanks to it being fueled by...

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The jellyfish known as the Bonaire banded box jellyfish was officially described in a paper published in 2011. Although the jellyfish was known to the public for many years, it took over ten years to gather specimens and documentation required to carry out the formal study required to establish it as a new species. The scientific name, Tamoya ohboya, was selected through an internet contest, open to the public. Read more at: http://blennywatcher.com/2012/02/09/bonaire-banded-box-jelly-tamoya-ohboya/