Nothing is more mesmerizing than watching a jellyfish travel through the ocean, they move like no other creature.
A jellyfish is an aquatic animal, they can be found in just about every sea in the world, even the arctic ocean, and some jellies that live in freshwater environments. They are invertebrates that have no skeleton. Jellyfish squirt water from their mouths to propel themselves forward. Jellyfish have nerve nets instead of brains, which sense changes in their environment.
Jellyfish can be identified by the tentacles that hang down from their bodies, some have short and others have very long tentacles.
What do they munch on? They eat small fish, fish eggs, shrimp, and plankton.
Cool jelly facts:
- A large number of jellyfish is called a bloom, some blooms contain over 500 million jellyfish!
- Some jellyfish can be as large as a refrigerator
- Jellyfish can clone themselves, yup that’s right, if a jellyfish is cut in half it can actually regenerate its body.
- Some jellies glow in the dark to attract prey
