jellyfish
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Runners up in the competition included videos of a roundworm encountering a single-celled organism and microscopic jellyfish larvae suspended in droplets of water.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
At first, postdoctoral researcher Olívia Soares Pereira thought the vehicle had come across a jellyfish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Measures have been implemented to try to prevent jellyfish infiltration, including a partnership with fishermen who capture and release them further offshore, according to French outlet Ici.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
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
I think about my grandfather and the jellyfish and feel a little jealous.
From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm
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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
When jellyfishes move, their tissue alternates between these states of tautness and gooeyness.
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
Brightly colored starfishes, beautiful sea-urchins, strange stationary ascidians, and flower-like sea-anemones, quaint sea-horses, and filmy, fragile jellyfishes and their multiform kin—all seem novel and wonderful as one sees them in their native element.
From A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science by Henry Smith Williams
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