Rainbow Glow Jellyfish - Neatorama

Jellyfish expert Lisa Gershwin found a new species off Tasmania that has a rainbow attached! It's not bioluminescent, but shows reflected light in lovely colors. And it doesn't sting. The unnamed jelly is very fragile, and will fall apart as soon as it touches a net. Link -via Unique Daily

(image credit: Martin George/QVMAG)

Had to steal this one for my blog - thanks!

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I imagine the coloring has some sort of sexual function, but I'm not feeling it.

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Creepy, as all jellyfish are, but very pretty.

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haha that middle part looks like a skull.

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I saw something like this at the TN Aquarium 10 years ago. I think it was called a Christmas tree jelly but it had colors just like this and they were running like blinking, sparking, Christmas lights.

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At the zoo I volunteer at, for a while we had what were called "rainbow jellies", and when the light from above their tank shone through them, their whole body looked like the tentacles of this one. It was incredibly cool.

The ones we had were similar to this one: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0LlKkQ7nRJI/RzHGuYZXfnI/AAAAAAAAAoU/-UVEc4kUzXE/s400/periphylla48_500.jpg
but were much cooler looking.

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My husband and I think the rainbow things look like a candy necklace. Neat!

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it will fall apart? lol

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kool ,i love that god has an imgination ! nothing he makes looks the same pretty awsome!

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