Ctenophores: Wonders of Biology (quantamagazine.org)
18 points by randomImmigrant 2 days ago
bediger4000 2 days ago
Steven Haddock, a marine biologist who studies ctenophores
Interesting case of nominative determinism.
randomImmigrant 2 days ago
Haddock is a bilatarian species though :P
But yes, the I suppose a call to study ocean creatures can be more compelling with that’s name.
bediger4000 16 hours ago
I imagine Steven Hydra was taken.
Nursie 2 hours ago
Mysterious and interesting things, first read about them after going scuba diving and seeing a few of there barely-there diaphanous whisps of creatures, with rippling iridescent spines up their sides.
Amazing to learn they were cilia refracting the light, not chemical bioluminescence, and that despite appearances they are absolutely not jellyfish!
NotCamelCase 11 minutes ago
So, they actually look like that as in the first video (gliding ribbon-like thing)? I can't tell if it's an animation or not, but it's so cool!