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How Jellyfish Work

How does a transparent bell move, catch food, coordinate a response, and produce another generation? Follow a moon jelly through its body and branching life cycle, compare other gelatinous animals, and investigate what a sudden crowd of jellies can tell us about the sea.

6 chapters · 1 hr 5 min reading

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Chapters

  1. 01

    Looking past the familiar silhouette

    11 min
  2. 02

    A pulse, a current, and a moving body

    11 min
  3. 03

    Capturing and processing food

    11 min
  4. 04

    Coordination without a human-style brain

    10 min
  5. 05

    More than the medusa

    11 min
  6. 06

    A population in a changing sea

    11 min