<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1bc33901-9303-4e7f-b223-7c50a981393f/D96B76B4-654D-4750-8461-86775CA67B60/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090317-new-rainbow-jellyfish-picture.html?source=rss" href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090317-new-rainbow-jellyfish-picture.html?source=rss" style="font-size: 11px;">news.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090317-new-rainbow-jellyfish-picture.html?source=rss"><TR><TD valign="top" colspan="2"><IMG width="461" height="261" border="0" alt="jellyfish picture" src="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/images/090317-jellyfish_big.jpg" /> </TD></TR><TR><TD align="left"><A href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/email2friend.pl"><IMG border="0" align="top" class="tool" src="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/images/global2004/email.gif" />Email to a Friend</A></TD></TR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090317-new-rainbow-jellyfish-picture.html?source=rss"><P> <B>March 16, 2009—</B>Look on the bright side—this luminous new jellyfish species doesn't sting. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090317-new-rainbow-jellyfish-picture.html?source=rss"><P> Jellyfish expert Lisa Gershwin caught the unnamed species in early March while swimming near a jetty off the <A href="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_australia.html">Australian</A> island of Tasmania with a "phototank"—a small aquarium that makes it easy to photograph sea life. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090317-new-rainbow-jellyfish-picture.html?source=rss"><P> The jellyfish does not emit its own light, as bioluminescent creatures do. (Related: <A href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070214-giant-squid.html">"Monster Glowing Squid Caught on Camera."</A>) </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090317-new-rainbow-jellyfish-picture.html?source=rss"><P> Rather, its rainbow glow emanates from light reflecting off the creature's cilia, small hairlike projections that beat simultaneously to move te jellyfish through the water. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090317-new-rainbow-jellyfish-picture.html?source=rss"><P> (See <A href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/01/070123-blue-jellyfish.html">a blue jellyfish swarm photo taken in Australia</A>.) </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090317-new-rainbow-jellyfish-picture.html?source=rss"><P> Though the glowing jelly is Gershwin's 159th species discovery in Australia, she still finds the discovery "simply splendid." </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090317-new-rainbow-jellyfish-picture.html?source=rss"><P> For one, the jelly is relatively large—5 inches (13 centimeters) long. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090317-new-rainbow-jellyfish-picture.html?source=rss">The invertebrate is also incredibly fragile—it shatters as soon as it touches a net,</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D96B76B4-654D-4750-8461-86775CA67B60/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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