jellyfish
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This Noodle-Fingered Robot Is A Friend To Jellyfish
Forget flies—this robot is so gentle, it wouldn’t hurt a jellyfish.
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A Man O’ War ‘Epidemic’ Is Sweeping Australian Beaches, And It Won’t Be The Last
Jellyfish and their relatives are taking over, man. Over the weekend, things got real weird off the coast of Queensland, Australia, where more than 2,600 people received treatment for stings from bluebottles, also known as the Indo-Pacific Portuguese man o’ war. These colonial critters have caused some 13,000 stings in the past week, reports the…
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Science Reveals The Right Way To Treat A Bluebottle Sting
Stings from a Portuguese man o’ war are as common as they are dangerous, yet there’s a lack of consensus over the best way to treat these painful pricks. New research published in the journal Toxins reveals that stings from the man o’ war (Physalia species) shouldn’t be treated any differently than stings from jellyfish,…
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Turns Out This Lost Breast Implant Was Actually A Jellyfish
A “concerned citizen” walked into Queensland’s Maroochydore Police Station last week with a peculiar find – a breast implant washed up on the Sunshine Coast beach. Was it from a homicide? A missing person who drowned? Nah, it was just a jellyfish.