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	Jellyfish have human-like eyes

milytivers

4-2-2007 5:36 PM

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ocean, animals, jellyfish, water, science

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4-25-2007 7:04 PM

taksmaster

It kind of reminds me of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

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<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/d2bf96a0-d9b6-45f1-a8f6-eefd63cc822d/E2A5EEAE-D53E-4053-8436-9655AF7EB7AC/" 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://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17913669/?GT1=9246" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17913669/?GT1=9246" style="font-size: 11px;">www.msnbc.msn.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17913669/?GT1=9246"><H1>Jellyfish have human-like eyes</H1></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://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17913669/?GT1=9246"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.msnbc.msn.com/img/9E65DE06-01F4-45A1-ACD1-C130A0392A2A" alt="Image: Box jellyfish" /></div></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://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17913669/?GT1=9246"><P class="textBodyBlack"><SPAN id="byLine"></SPAN>Unlike normal <A xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" href="http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/060710_jellyfish_explosion.html">jellyfish</A>, which drift in the ocean current, <A xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" href="http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=070330_box_jellyfish_02.jpg&cap=Box+jellyfish%2C+which+dwell+in+tropical+areas%2C+can+grow+to+be+between+one+and+35+centimeters+%28on+each+side+of+their+cube-shaped+body%29.+Credit:+Anders+Garm">box jellyfish</A> are active swimmers that can rapidly make 180-degree turns and deftly dart between objects. Scientists suspect that box jellyfish are such agile because one set of their 24 eyes detects objects that get in their way.</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://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17913669/?GT1=9246"><P class="textBodyBlack"><SPAN id="byLine"></SPAN>“Behavior-wise, they’re very different from normal jellyfish,” said study leader Anders Garm of Lund University in Sweden.</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://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17913669/?GT1=9246"><P class="textBodyBlack"><SPAN id="byLine"></SPAN>Whereas we have one set of multi-purpose <A xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" href="http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/051128_eye_works.html">eyes</A> that sense color, size, shape and light intensity, box jellyfish have four different types of special-purpose eyes. 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