Finn the Corgi wants to reassure everyone that rumors that he has been rolling in something stinky are untrue.
Pure character assassination by the lying press without a shred of evidence.
You're looking at "ephyrae", a free-swimming larval stage of jellyfish (shown: cannonball jellyfish, Stomolophus meleagris) that are released by the sessile polyp stage, then mature into medusae.
The name is a reference to a sea-nymph (Ephyra) from Greek mythology.
They really are asterisk-shaped.
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Side point, but no leaded gasoline has been sold in the US since 1996.
The UN proposed a global phase-out by 2021, with Algeria selling the last tank of leaded gasoline, globally, in mid-2021.
Just a weird quirk that the pumps still say "unleaded" 30+ years later.
Alvaro Migotto at the Marine Biology Center, University of São Paulo, captured this video of baby jellyfish being born. Technically, "scyphozoa strobilation" in crown jellyfish (Nausithoe aurea).
It's wild to think that all of this is one species.
(📷: Alvaro Migotto, CEBIMar-USP via his YT)
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Maybe we should take it as a reminder of what's possible when the world unites, agrees that lead toxicity is a pressing global problem, and commits to working together to keep our kids safe? 🤷
After decades of international pressure by a UN group, leaded gasoline is no longer being produced.
