Medusa - one of the most interesting creatures living on Earth.Their body is made of water-flooded mesogloea - connective tissue, and looks like jelly.
shape of these inhabitants of the water element resembles an umbrella or bell, mushroom or star, because these creatures are thin tentacles.Therefore his name they got from the Greek words with the root "Melas", which translated sounds like a "black stars" or "Astro".
biggest jellyfish - it Cyanea capilata, also called giant tsianeey, Arctic tsianeey, hairy tsianeey or lion's mane.It refers to stsifomeduzam.
In 1865, the Massachusetts Bay was washed ashore after a storm a huge jellyfish.The diameter of its umbrella was 2.29 m, the length of the tentacles was nearly 37 meters!Zoologists believe that among the Arctic cyanogen can meet the biggest jellyfish umbrella with a diameter of two and a half meters and forty-meter tentacles.
Giant tsianeya lives in the northern part of the Atlantic and the Pacific and in the Arctic seas.But the biggest jellyfish are rarely close to shore, so few people can meet her.People viewing photos lucky people do not believe in the plausibility of their starting Photoshop.However, such a swinger occur in nature.
Moves largest jellyfish reactive manner, like his brethren.With the reduction of the muscles of the cavity umbrella sharply pushed water - this allows the gelatinous creatures move in the water rather quickly.
The body color jellyfish varies depending on its size.Large specimens are red, brown, brown and even dark purple.At the edge of the umbrella located tentacles (they are collected in bundles of eight), and the senses.In the middle of the bottom (concave) side of the mouth is surrounded by a thin fringed oral lobes.
feeds the largest jellyfish in the world of small sea creatures: plankton, crustaceans, mollusks, fish eggs and small fish.She herself can also serve dinner some big fish.Very often consumed by marine predators of small specimens.
his victims jellyfish venom paralyzes located in stinging cells on the tentacles.Inside the stinging cells are twisted into a spiral hollow long filaments.Outside, a small hair sticking out, which when touched to him triggered by a trigger strand ejected from the capsule and bites into prey.And already on the thread enters the poison.Paralyzed and immobilized victim jellyfish slowly guides his mouth, first with the help of the tentacles, and then oral lobes.
should be noted that people do not jellyfish attack - as an object of human nutrition it is not interested.However, the "burn" his very careless curious jellyfish venom is capable of.These burns but not deadly, but quite painful, especially if the jellyfish has a large size.
propagated by the world's largest jellyfish so.The male sperm are released into the water, where they penetrate into the body of the female and fertilize an egg.Then, the eggs develop into larvae, planuly.After leaving the body of jellyfish and swim a few days, larvae attach to the substrate and is transformed into a polyp.
As this type of polyp marine life reproduces by budding, forming daughter polyps.In the spring of the polyp turns into a larva - ether, and the ether is gradually transformed into a jellyfish.
