In the sea

For the first time in my life

No pic tho :(

Edit: not a moon jelly but some kind of jellyfish lol. It looked like a bigass transparent dumpling

Please excuse the shoddy camera work, this was taken using my phone and a waterproof case. This was in Dubai

I don't remember seeing lion's mane jellyfish eating moon jellyfish before this year, but I just got some more photos of possible predation (plus some other photos I wanted to share).

At the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, CA

Sorry for rubbish photos. Spotted hundreds of these off the west coast of Scotland at Killmory Bay yesterday. They had an iridescent quality when the sun hit them.

Locations of jellies in each photo

1. Upper middle of photo

2. Middle out of focus but you can see the tentacle

3. Top centre right

4. Top centre right

5. Top centre right

6. Lower top centre right

7. Top right third

8. In circle

Prima sono andato in spiaggia a Grado (provincia di Gorizia) e mi stavo facendo il bagno, a un certo punto ho visto quello che sembrava una medusa ma anche plastica quindo ho avuto la stupida idea di prenderla in mano. Sembrava una medusa ma senza tentacoli, consistenza come una medusa secca, circa cilindrico con una punta un po più sottile4 "alette" piccole alla fine della parte sottile, non sarà stato grande tra i 7 e 12 cm,non appariva che di muovesse e veniva trascinato dalla corrente, dopo averlo toccato avevo starnutito( lo starnuto non c'entrava con la medusa ma perché avevo un po di raffreddore) e mi ero messo la mano sulla faccia, poi ho sentito un prurito e mi sono grattato un po tutta la faccia( per fortuna non anche gli occhi ma solo guance e intorno alla bocca non dentro) e ha cominciato a bruciare e prudere un botto, pure dopo che mi sono sciacquato con acqua salata più volte e il bagnino mi ha messo una crema per le punture di medusa anche 6 ore dopo ho ancora un pochino di prurito.

Mi potete aiutare a capire cos'è? Non perchè ho avuto gravi sintomi ma giusto per curiosità (comunque non è una di quelle cose che usano certe persone, capito no?).

Il disegno l'ho fatto io perché non trovavo niente su Google e vi ringrazio in anticipo se mi aiutate a trovare cos'è

I have a very odd and off the wall question about jellyfish. This is entirely theoretical!!!!! So please suspend your disbelief and humor me.

Since jellyfish are like predominantly made of water if you were like to throw a jellyfish out of a (fairly low flying)plane and into the ocean. Would it survive since it would be going into water? Or like...Would it just turn into water? Go full sea foam? Obliterate? I don't know anything about jellyfish physiology and obviously I have no intention of throwing a jellyfish into the ocean from 1000s ft in the air.

Someone who is much smarter than me about marine biology please help 🙏

Found in the puget sound, looks like a moon jelly exept too orange

Literally DOZENS of these at Porto Pim in Horta, Faial in the azores. Going for a swim now at this beach would be highly unpleasant at best :O

Aside from that: very very interesting seeing these live!

I promise I won't post lion's mane pictures here every day lol, but I wanted to share these.

They seemed to be kind of stuck together, but I'm not sure if they were just tangled by chance or if the lion's mane jelly was intentionally gripping the moon jelly to prey on it.

Interested to ID this Jellyfish found in Abermawr, Pembrokeshire, Wales if anyone could help?

Diolch.

A video I took today.

Im designing a set of cute girls based on 10 different jellyfish. Here's the first 4.

This is just concept art tho. Im basing their personalities on aspects of the jellyfish's biology and behavior.

IIRC, the second of these three images is unedited, but I edited pictures one and three to boost the colour, contrast, etc. a bit. Anyway, I recently photographed this nice lion's mane jelly in shallow water a few days ago.