Thursday, May 08, 2003

ABCNEWS.com : New Species of Giant Jellyfish Found

ABCNEWS.com : New Species of Giant Jellyfish Found A new species of jellyfish with a yard-wide fleshy red bell and a cluster of wrinkled, thick arms has been found by scientists nearly a mile beneath the cold, dark waters of the Pacific Ocean.

Marine biologists at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute discovered 23 of what they call Big Reds in Monterey Bay and the Sea of Cortez and off Hawaii, Japan and the Farallon Islands near San Francisco, according to the latest online edition of the journal Marine Biology.

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