Well, these things look like deep sea animals, but really they can be found in very shallow water—in bays. I know a person who lives on a beach house thing near a bay, and when I go to his house I catch tons of Beröe’s comb jellies.
They don’t sting, and they feel super weird if you touch them—kind of like prepared gelatin:
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| Look at me! I’m a comb jelly! |
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| O_O |
Now, you have to admit that’s just weird. What’s even weirder is the fact that comb jellies eat baby fish. Like baby livebearers and things like that. They’re likely to eat young mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) and midget topminnows (Heterandria formosa). (PS: Midget topminnows are the seventh smallest fish in the world and the eighth smallest vertebrates. So comb jellies would have no trouble eating them anyway.)
Plus, comb jellies are glow in the dark! They make pretty rainbows with little light thingies on their sides.
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