Jellyfish

fun facts about Jellyfish

1. Jellyfish existed long before us or even the dinosaurs. then have been in the oceans for around 650 million years.

2. The Phialella zappai  goldfish is named  after us composer/ guitarist Frank Zappa \.

3. The earliest record use of the word "jellyfish " in English was in 1707.

4. the largest jellyfish ever found was a lion's mane jellyfish with diameter of 7 ft & 6 in  & 120 ft long tentacles.

5. A group of jellyfish is called a bloom, swarm or smack.

6. if a jellyfish is cut in two pieces can regenerate and create two new jellyfish .

7 Jellyfish & cucumbers are both  95 percent water.

8 Jellyfish do not have brains but instead have nerve nets which detect environmental changes in coordinate the animals respones.

9 In many languages the word for jellyfish is medusa after the mythological Gorgon medusa whose snakes for hair suggested jellyfish tentacles.

10 Colonies of jellyfish are either all male or all female both sexes release both sperms & Eggs.