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Despite its long coastline, California is not vulnerable to tropical cyclones. Because of the cold California Current from the North Pacific Ocean and the fact that the storms tend to "steer" west, California has only been hit with three tropical storms in recorded history, a storm which came ashore in 1939 and dumped heavy rainfall on the Los ...
Halitrephes maasi, commonly known as the firework jellyfish, is a species of deep-sea hydrozoan of the family Halicreatidae. Sightings have been reported at depths of 4,000 to 5,000 feet (1,200 to 1,500 m) near the Revillagigedo Archipelago off the Baja California Peninsula .
The Scyphozoa are an exclusively marine class of the phylum Cnidaria, [2] referred to as the true jellyfish (or "true jellies"). The class name Scyphozoa comes from the Greek word skyphos ( σκύφος ), denoting a kind of drinking cup and alluding to the cup shape of the organism.
“This is my first time hearing about them in Stumpy Meadows Reservoir during my 9 years on the Eldorado National Forest,” said a federal aquatic biologist.
The lion's mane jellyfish, Cyanea capillata, was long-cited as the largest jellyfish, and arguably the longest animal in the world, with fine, thread-like tentacles that may extend up to 36.5 m (119 ft 9 in) long (though most are nowhere near that large). [54] [55] They have a moderately painful, but rarely fatal, sting. [56]
There's evidence to suggest that the comb jellyfish was the first animal to appear on Earth some 700 million years ago. ‘Time-traveler’ jellyfish found to age backward in accidental discovery ...
The box jellyfish actively hunts its prey (small fish), rather than drifting as do true jellyfish. They are strong swimmers, capable of achieving speeds of up to 1.5 to 2 metres per second or about 4 knots (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph). [19] and rapidly turning up to 180° in a few bell contractions. [4] Some species are capable of avoiding obstacles. [4]
Once stranded on the beach, cannonball jellies can’t survive long out of water and eventually become a food source for shorebirds, crabs, sea turtles and other critters that live along the coast.