Life among the ghouls and goblins of Halloween season may be harrowing but it’s no better in the watery world of our ocean’s microscopic plankton. Consider the Phronima sedentaria
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Pic o’ the Week: Jellyfish ‘Satellite of Life’ in a Zooplankton Bloom
A juvenile fish and a jellyfish amid a zooplankton bloom, off the Shetland Islands, Atlantic Ocean. Photo © Henley Spiers, courtesy Hakai Magazine A jelly swims amid a zooplankton bloom, its tentacles providing shelter for juvenile fish. As photographer Henley Spiers said, "The bloom also attracted these fish that I observed using a jellyfish as … Continue reading Pic o’ the Week: Jellyfish ‘Satellite of Life’ in a Zooplankton Bloom