From this scrunchy package of toxic usables — plastic, epoxy, resin, fibreglass, permanent ink, polyester fabrics — ratchet straps snake out like the treacherous stinging tentacles of a Blue Bottle jellyfish, its nose points towards the wall where Clemence de La Tour du Pin's two prints hang. (aqnb.com)
This week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at the University of Kansas will reveal how a jellyfish — those commonplace sea pests with stinging tentacles — have evolved over time into «really weird» microscopic organisms, made of only a few cells, that live inside other animals. (sciencedaily.com)
But unlike jellyfish, Dendrogramma lacks stinging tentacles, and unlike comb jellies it is missing a comb of hairs. (newscientist.com)