Thanks for that (the first sentence especially). My references were unclear. I have seen wild comb jellies, but at Cape Cod, not in the city. I wish I understood deuterostomes and other -stomes better, and where cnidarians fit in all that; but my job is to bridge the gap between scientists and laypeople, and most laypeople don't want to know about jellyfish anuses. But that doesn't mean I shouldn't understand them.
Moon jellies are not the most aerodynamic of cnidarians, but the satisfying squish of nailing someone with a flung jellyfish completely outweighs the challenge of hurling it at say, the Queen Bitch in jr. high school.
The Weekly Dig contacted me because their managing editor is writing an article on urban nature, and knew of my blog. We've done one walk and she wants to do another.
It would be nice to think that more positive developments could happen down the line, if I became a prominent enough character to use my prominence or characterhood to get a column somewhere.
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I've been walking the beaches of the Puget Sound and I've found quite a few of these, plus a few other species that I can't identify.
And apparently, a group of jellyfish is called a "smack."
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Do tell. Are you the subject of another article or is this an even more positive development?
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It would be nice to think that more positive developments could happen down the line, if I became a prominent enough character to use my prominence or characterhood to get a column somewhere.
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