immortal jellyfish

Adult has 90 tentacles & young has 8

Once is fully grown it turns itself into a baby, it curls into a ball and sinks to the ocean floor

Only way it can die is by diseases or being eaten

Eat plankton, fish eggs, and small mollusks

Its predator is only sea turtles

Its transparent with a red stomach

4,000 years = most it can reach before turning back into a baby

TURRITOPSIS DOHRNII

Turritopsis dohrnii

They are pale blue and clear

Can kill a human in less than 4

minutes

Can grow up to 10 feet long

Mouth is on underside of body

One of the most dangerous

sea creature in the world

Nick named “sea wasp”

Each tentacle has about 5,000

stinging cells

Has lots of eyes but can’t see

very well

BOX JELLYFISH

Box Jellyfish

Most have no brain

Made of very delicate tissue

Made up of 95% of water

Can be transparent almost

invisible to the human eye

Squirt water from mouths to

propel forward

Digest food very quickly so

they can float

JELLYFISH BODY

Transparent Jellyfish

A polyp is the second stage of

a jellyfish after a planula larva

Attach themselves to ocean’s

floor and then let go and

become ephyra and medusa

Polyp also called a

“scyphistoma”

POLYPS

Jellyfish Polyp

Not fish

Been around before

dinosaurs

Group of jellyfish is called a

bloom, swarm, or smack

Large bloom (swarm or

smack) can carry up to

100,000 jellyfish

Average jellyfish lifespan is

one year

Jellyfish eat plankton, small

mollusks, fish eggs, and

larvae

INTERESTING FACTS

Swarm, smack, or bloom of Moon Jellyfish

David Braun, Dan Buettener,

Wade Davis ,and Mark Lynas

“Immortal “ jellyfish swarms

world

www.national goegraphic.com

Michelle Sullivan. “jellyfish

Overview”

Kids.nationalgeographic.com

No Author. “The Immortal

Jellyfish”. Immortal Jellyfish -

Biological Deathless Creature.

www.immortaljellyfish.com

Landau, Elaine Jellyfish

Children’s Press 1999

Parker, Steve Predator Priddy

Books 2012

RESOURCES