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Jellyfish have been around for 500 million years or more. Some are really meaty-looking and some are totally transparent like little glass bells. They can live
by GuerraEarth 13y ago
Jellyfish have been around for 500 million years or more. Some are really meaty-looking and some are totally transparent like little glass bells. They can live in salt or fresh water. They swim beneath the Arctic ice. Warmer temperatures because of climate change contribute to jelly blooms, and over-fishing means less competition for zooplankton (food source). Fertilizer run-off depletes oxygen in water, but jellyfish thrive in low oxygen environs. Then all the drilling and various structures built in water are just big nurseries for baby jellyfish and polyp sacks. It isn't only jellyfish that are overtaking the oceans. Slowly but surely. Pathogens are shifting as temperatures change. We see sicknesses in lobster that we didn't see before. All across the board, the seas are changing. By the time that it's a big mainstay news story, sadly it will already have reached a critical situation. There seems to be a dearth of caring right now, about what we are doing to our oceans. And without our oceans as a wholesome, viable resource, we will be in the soup.