The lobed comb jelly: odd but awesome!

The lobed comb jelly: odd but awesome!

The lovely lobed comb jelly has a translucent body covered with eight rows of cilia that look like rainbows when exposed to light. As the jelly glides through the water, it collects zooplankton in its mucous-covered lobes. Can you spot the pink spots of food collected in the gut of this comb jelly? Jellies are simple creatures with few specialized organs. Most jellies can detect chemical traces in the water that allow them to locate food, and many are equipped with a gravity-sensitive structure, called a statocyst, that gives them a sense of up and down in the water.