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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Northeastern MA
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/sc...=1&ref=science
"Among nature’s grand inventory of multicellular creatures, jellyfish seem like the ultimate other, as alien from us as mobile beings can be while still remaining within the kingdom Animalia. Where is the head, the heart, the back, the front, the matched sets of parts and organs? Where is the bilateral symmetry?" "“Jellyfish are the most ancient multiorgan animal on earth,” said David J. Albert, a jellyfish expert at the Roscoe Bay Marine Biological Laboratory in Vancouver, British Columbia." "For all their noble antiquity, jellyfish have long been ignored or misunderstood by mainstream science, dismissed as so much mindless protoplasm with a mouth. Now, in a series of new studies, researchers have found that there is far more complexity and nuance to a jellyfish than meets the eye — or eyes. In the May 10 issue of the journal Current Biology, Dr. Garm and his colleagues describe the astonishing visual system of the box jellyfish, in which an interactive matrix of 24 eyes of four distinct types — two of them very similar to our own eyes — allow the jellies to navigate like seasoned sailors through the mangrove swamps they inhabit."
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WG Prize & Gift Coordinator
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Michigan
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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Very cool...great quotes...they do seem so far removed..but who knew they had vision. Cool.
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