Friday, January 02, 2009

Jellyfish at the Aquarium

The British biologist J.B.S. Haldane is famously quoted as saying, ""My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose." Most of the time, that quote is used by sub-atomic physicists talking about the completely non-intuitive behavior of quarks and bozons and whatnot.

But some sea creatures are improbable at the biological level as well: the impossibly ornate sea-horses and the glowing fish, and the chameleon-like fish which change color and markings to better blend in with the sand behind them, and this too-cool jellyfish (visit the video on YouTube for a higher-resolution version).

(The original video was shot on a Nikon D90 DSLR, in case you are curious.)

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