9.16.2013

Attack of the monster jellyfish

They’re Taking Over! by Tim Flannery | The New York Review of Books

Most jellyfish are little more than gelatinous bags containing digestive organs and gonads, drifting at the whim of the current. But box jellyfish are different. They are active hunters of medium-sized fish and crustaceans, and can move at up to twenty-one feet per minute.

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