Discovering Your Inner Fish —Human DNA Traced Back to Marine Origins (Today’s Most Popular)
Have you ever felt like you’re really a fish? That you love the water, you want to swim forever, that you should don an artificial tail and eat kelp for the rest of your life? Then congratulations, you’re crazy. But by coincidence some of your psycho-cells agree with you, hiding gene expression patterns that date back to the fish and probably beyond.
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The Giant Deep Sea Jelly, Stygiomedusa
MBARI’s research expeditions sometimes yield encounters with extraordinary animals. During MBARI’s 2003 expedition to the Gulf of California, scientists spotted this massive jelly known as Stygiomedusa gigantea 1,300 m below the surface of the Gulf.
Its enormous brown bell stretched about 1 m (3 ft) across and its oral arms were at least 3 m (10 ft) long. The researchers also collected a small fish in the genus Thalassobathia that was swimming over the jelly’s bell and among its billowing oral arms. In over 20 years of deep-sea dives, MBARI researchers have only seen Stygiomedusa jellies three times, so finding this drifting behemoth provided a truly memorable experience.
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So I just watched the premiere of Frozen Planet, and I highly recommend you watch it. It is beyond beautiful and fascinating. The photography is breathtaking. They feature some marine animals, particularly orcas. However, there are also many other amazing creatures to learn about and I can’t imagine anything better to watch the next few Sunday nights on the Discovery Channel.
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