Friday, September 23, 2011

Jellyfish

In Chicago, we visited the Shedd Aquarium, a place I had never been to before.


While we were there, there was a jellyfish exhibit going on and they are really quite amazing (and beautiful creatures). The excerpt below is taken straight from the aquarium's website: *

"For 500 million years, the seemingly simple systems of sea jellies have thrived in the world's oceans. Learn how jellies' bodies are 95% water and their feeding arms can grow up to 8 feet long; how drifting with the current, jellies travel thousands of miles; and how the tiniest jelly could nestle into a contact lens, while the largest couldn't squeeze into a minivan. Enter this mesmerizing world of jellies, where your hosts are these spectacular creatures—some beautiful, some mysterious, but every one of them fascinating".



















- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad 2


* Yes, I took these photos. I did not copy them from the Shedd's website.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Are the photos from the website too?

Sissie said...

eeeekkkkkkk

sewnews said...

Quite amazing

24h Betreuung said...

WoW! that looks really amazing.

buy rift account said...

Cool! that was so darn awesome.