jellyfish
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There will be no sharks, jellyfish, rocks or bad currents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
The Bluebottle drone, manufactured in Sydney, is named after a small jellyfish with a painful sting that washes ashore on Australian beaches.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
The whale’s gullet is flickeringly lit by a bioluminescent jellyfish that Jay sort of befriends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
The researchers also noted that jellyfish, which diverged from humans about 600 to 700 million years ago, possess two nervous systems positioned at different ends of their bodies.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
The room was filled with tanks of jellyfish.
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
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
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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