The Living Light Shows of the Deep Ocean 🌊✨

Meet the lobate comb jelly (Lobata). While they look remarkably like classic jellyfish, these translucent wanderers belong to the phylum Ctenophora—one of the absolute oldest lineages of animal life on Earth.

They don't sting; instead, they use those massive, wing-like oral lobes to scoop up microscopic plankton as they drift.

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