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 …

Pic o’ the Week: Tiny Sea Life

Photo by Cheryl Clarke-Hopcroft/UAF/CMarZ A one-centimeter large larval-tube Medusae anemone. It's already begun fishing for food with its tiny tentacles and its dark stomach indicates it's finding food. This image was taken as part of the Census of Marine Life, a 10-year collaboration among more than 2,000 scientists from 80+ nations. The census, which will …