boren / buran

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/environment/carnivorous-sea-flowers-5-amazing-anemones-found-in-singapore

#Singapore #anemone #cnidaria #marine #sea #laut #animal #wildlife #biodiversity #polyp #tentacles

Great cover image at @PLOSBiology

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/image.pbio.v21.i05

#oceanography
#pacific
#Cnidaria

**Floating neustonic life in the plastic-rich North Pacific Garbage Patch**
Floating life (obligate neuston) is a core component of the ocean surface food web. [...] Clockwise from top left, by-the-wind sailor (*Velella* sp.), blue button (*Porpita* sp.), Portuguese man-o-war (*Physalia* sp.), blue sea dragon (*Glaucus* sp.) and violet snail (*Janthina* sp.). *Image Credit: Chong et al.*

#Dogwalking miscellany

Beaches are endlessly fascinating. There's the ever changing weather, clouds, waves and slowly changing shoreline, and then there's the constant parade of offerings thrown up by each high tide.

Together with seaweed, flotsam, jetsam, shells and so on, from time to time there are stranded jellyfish (and bluebottles, and other predators, but not in this post).

Here are several larger jellyfish encountered on dog walks. For scientific purposes, each has an ISO standard foot meter (not to be confused with an imperial foot, like Harry's, or an SI metre) included in the shot.

#photography #whimsy #jellyfish #beachcombing #iphoneography #iphone3GS #humour #cnidaria

@skulker558 @frankuwu idk how they even got faces. :blobbroken: 👍
#cnidaria #radialsymmetry

Spotted a number of these Mangrove jellyfish (Acromitus sp.) moving about in the water at the dam leading to the east entrance of Coney Island, Singapore, on 13 May 2021. First time I've spotted jellyfish in the wild.

On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/78554946 ]

#iNaturalist #Nature #Singapore #Photography #Jellyfish #Cnidaria