• The Environment

    Jellyfish Invasion

    By Posted on 6.4.2008 17 Comments

    For most of us, jellyfish are nothing more than a nuisance. They drift toward beach shores and into our consciousness each summer near the end of their life cycle, making a refreshing dip in the water a bit less carefree for a few weeks. But that may be changing. Last November, a 10-mile-wide and 42-foot-thick swarm of baby mauve stingers (Pelagia noctiluca) decimated Northern Ireland’s farmed-salmon population. Overnight,120,000 fish were reduced to a floating mass of carcasses by billions of the small jellies native to warmer waters thousands of miles to the south. The salmon, which were killed by stings and oxygen deprivation, had a market value of $2 million.

    6.11.2008 at 09:28am - Comment by BetterFuture4UandMe

    (Darkfx) "Well lets assume this is creature visually remains identical to its ancestors, and that It probably evolved from one of the more ancient periods of the past, like when some of the first multi-celled organisms manifested.This took part after the cellular advance of plants, which evolved to Flesh Life. Also why the world was a forest, because plants are smart in terms of having the largest genetic mass over the Earth. Mabye the one Plant that is poisonous to this creature or even its predator is exint." Sorry but u are wrong. The only plants that were around when jellyfish first came about was algae, there were no land plants. and the idea that a plant turned into a flesh animal is just down right dumb. Don't comment on what you don't know. sorry again

  • The Environment

    Jellyfish Invasion

    By Posted on 6.4.2008 17 Comments

    For most of us, jellyfish are nothing more than a nuisance. They drift toward beach shores and into our consciousness each summer near the end of their life cycle, making a refreshing dip in the water a bit less carefree for a few weeks. But that may be changing. Last November, a 10-mile-wide and 42-foot-thick swarm of baby mauve stingers (Pelagia noctiluca) decimated Northern Ireland’s farmed-salmon population. Overnight,120,000 fish were reduced to a floating mass of carcasses by billions of the small jellies native to warmer waters thousands of miles to the south. The salmon, which were killed by stings and oxygen deprivation, had a market value of $2 million.

    6.11.2008 at 09:27am - Comment by BetterFuture4UandMe

    (Darkfx) "Well lets assume this is creature visually remains identical to its ancestors, and that It probably evolved from one of the more ancient periods of the past, like when some of the first multi-celled organisms manifested.This took part after the cellular advance of plants, which evolved to Flesh Life. Also why the world was a forest, because plants are smart in terms of having the largest genetic mass over the Earth. Mabye the one Plant that is poisonous to this creature or even its predator is exint." Sorry but u are wrong. The only plants that were around when jellyfish first came about was algae, there were no land plants. and the idea that a plant turned into a flesh animal is just down right dumb. Don't comment on what you don't know. sorry again



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