Comments on: 50 Toddlers + One Dead Lion’s Mane Jellyfish = ? http://theartfulamoeba.com/2010/07/23/50-toddlers-one-lions-mane-jellyfish/ A blog about the weird wonderfulness of life on Earth Fri, 07 Mar 2014 01:10:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.31 By: The Fungus and Virus that Rot Bee Brains http://theartfulamoeba.com/2010/07/23/50-toddlers-one-lions-mane-jellyfish/comment-page-1/#comment-689 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:48:46 +0000 http://theartfulamoeba.com/?p=3433#comment-689 […] 2D view at the top of this post) they use to get themselves into host cells. Just like nematocytes (covered in this post), the coiled “rope” of the harpoon turns inside out when the cell is triggered — […]

]]> By: Trisha http://theartfulamoeba.com/2010/07/23/50-toddlers-one-lions-mane-jellyfish/comment-page-1/#comment-569 Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:15:54 +0000 http://theartfulamoeba.com/?p=3433#comment-569 I used to think that they are deadly. thanks for the informative article. your blog seems very interesting. will be coming back for more.
thanks a lot.

]]> By: A Sea Slug of Fractal Beauty http://theartfulamoeba.com/2010/07/23/50-toddlers-one-lions-mane-jellyfish/comment-page-1/#comment-533 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:59:34 +0000 http://theartfulamoeba.com/?p=3433#comment-533 […] shipping cushion, dangling streamers of nematocyte-bearing and swimmer-irritating tentacles below (remember what those are?). G. atlanticus (also known quite poetically as the sea swallow) roams about at the surface, trippy […]

]]> By: Jo http://theartfulamoeba.com/2010/07/23/50-toddlers-one-lions-mane-jellyfish/comment-page-1/#comment-498 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 02:32:53 +0000 http://theartfulamoeba.com/?p=3433#comment-498 Wow! Wow! and WOW! I can’t believe that guy stung his son! I love the idea of thinking about creatures based on their age. So many times, I wonder how old a certain animal or plant appearing in a nature show is. And a beach full of jellyfish stung adults and children… Yikes!

]]> By: Jennifer Frazer http://theartfulamoeba.com/2010/07/23/50-toddlers-one-lions-mane-jellyfish/comment-page-1/#comment-479 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:15:45 +0000 http://theartfulamoeba.com/?p=3433#comment-479 Very cool! Will do a quick post on that soon. Thanks for the link! My fave is the green rock. Had not seen that plant before.

]]> By: kati http://theartfulamoeba.com/2010/07/23/50-toddlers-one-lions-mane-jellyfish/comment-page-1/#comment-478 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:10:27 +0000 http://theartfulamoeba.com/?p=3433#comment-478 thought of you!

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/07/26/eco.oldest.living.things/index.html?hpt=C1

]]> By: Jennifer Frazer http://theartfulamoeba.com/2010/07/23/50-toddlers-one-lions-mane-jellyfish/comment-page-1/#comment-477 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:06:30 +0000 http://theartfulamoeba.com/?p=3433#comment-477 Ah, yes. The Australian box jellies — among the most venomous creatures on Earth. Living proof that it’s not the size of the bell, it’s the motion in the nematocyst.

]]> By: kyril http://theartfulamoeba.com/2010/07/23/50-toddlers-one-lions-mane-jellyfish/comment-page-1/#comment-475 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:34:18 +0000 http://theartfulamoeba.com/?p=3433#comment-475 At the other end of the “size” spectrum, another clear sign of jellyfish world-domination plans: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irukandji_jellyfish

Isn’t the “Dunwich Horror” set close to New Hampshire? Perhaps it isn’t too late
to start worshiping Cthulu or the other Old Ones. Doom is imminent :-).

]]> By: Jeremy http://theartfulamoeba.com/2010/07/23/50-toddlers-one-lions-mane-jellyfish/comment-page-1/#comment-474 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:04:25 +0000 http://theartfulamoeba.com/?p=3433#comment-474 Lion’s Manes are nasty enough to have nearly killed Sherlock Holmes, too.
Nearly.

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