Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Atolla Jellyfish


Photograph courtesy Queensland Brain Institute

Camera lights in the perennially dark depths of the Coral Sea reveal an atolla jellyfish's true colors in a 2006 picture.
During the ongoing Deep Australia Project, researchers have snapped a variety of odd creatures, including "prehistoric" six-gilled sharks, giant oil fish, swarms of crustaceans, and many unidentified fish.

nationalgeographic.com

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