Comb Jellies

Comb Jellies -- Phylum Ctenophora

Comb jellies are beautiful animals with tiny, hair-like structures arranged in eight rows like the teeth of a comb. As they swim, the rows diffract light to create a shimmering display of colours.

Some comb jellies species are voracious predators and will eat the jellies shown in this video.

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Pets & Animals

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• jellies
• comb
• vancouver
• aquarium
• ocean

[Xamigan]

That's so cool! Do you have any other deep sea life at your aquarium?

[VancouverAquarium]

Comb jellies are not necessarily deep sea creatures, but some species probably do travel from the depths to the surface, so being in "deep sea" may depend on time of day, season or life cycle. What we're learning as we explore oceans more is that a good number of sea creatures do travel from the depth to the surface. (1/2)

[VancouverAquarium]

So for example, we have ratfish on display -- they're found in relatively shallow water at night or maybe in the winter but they're also found in the depths, into the part of the ocean called the twilight zone. We also have juvenile yelloweye rockfish on display -- they're found in shallower water (accessible to divers) when they're young, but they live in the depths as adults. (2/2)

[DragonHorse151]

They should be renamed rave jellies.

[kawaihui]

This is not from earth. The alien live deep down the sea, this is one of their pet that escaped.

[AlexB1001]

Cool Ctenophora fact: scientists used to think that they made their own nematocytes (stinging cells), but in fact they eat some species of Cnidaria ('real' jellyfish) and steal their stings, putting them on their own tentacles.

[MatsumotoGeorge]

I don't see any Beroe in this video clip. Bolinopsis and Pleurobrachia...

[idjotsify]

Soon it will evolve to levitate and fly back to its planet

[sutdip]

short but awsome

[jurnee17]

Could you keep one as a pet? Becuase if so i want one. (:

[LeonessOlga]

This is not Beroe... this is Bolinopsis  I guess..

[bananian]

Holy cow! Do other jellies make sound too?

[adan921]

Technically i guess you can say some of these creatures are alien creatures since some of these marine animals live in certain conditions a regular human being can't or any other animal, so in a way they are aliens.

[JamesWaton]

My only conclusion if they are not native is they may have been swept there, but there was 1000's of them shimmering different colours in the light, i was pretty shocked i had never seen any of them in the flesh, just on deep deep sea programs

[JamesWaton]

Hi i live in england, on the south east side, i've seen these in my local estuary, i actually said outload infront of my little sisters "what the fuck, i'm pretty sure these are not supposed to be here?" at they native to my area (river stour in suffolk)