Jellyfish

Swish! A little bit of a jellyfish is washed from the twilight zone to the splash zone. Deep down in the sea are a lot more jellyfish friends. They are shaped liked an umbrella with a floppy top with underneath a lot of poisonous stinging tentacles hanging under the umbrella like bells.  A jellyfish cannot swim and control itself because that floppy top does not have a brain! But that still does not mean a jellyfish won't need to eat. It hovers above its  prey and prey will get caught in the stinging tentacles and die. A jellyfish moves around by the waves and current. The most dangerous jellyfish is the box jellyfish. It can kill many adults in less than 4 minutes! As well as being extremely dangerous, the box jellyfish is longer than an average adult man! But don't worry! You would not normally see box jellyfish in the the wild since they live in deeper zones of the ocean. I think jellyfish are truly amazing creatures, and the oceans would seem so empty without them.

By Tessa Sagner