jellyfish
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The jellyfish was so big the tentacles went "beyond the range of visibility".
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
At first, postdoctoral researcher Olívia Soares Pereira thought the vehicle had come across a jellyfish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Several species of jellyfish are native and can be seen around the coast when the waters are warm.
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
Fish as big as houses with sparkling scales darted away from the jellyfish creatures.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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
In animals like sea-anemones and jellyfishes the general symmetry of the body is radial; that is to say, there is no right or left, and the body might be halved along many planes.
From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by J. Arthur Thomson
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