Picture of the month

Floating in light 

Acrylic on canvas

A swarm or bloom of jellyfish, floating calmly in rays of light. The species is Moon Jellyfish “Aurelia aurita“. 

In general, jellyfish have existed for over 650 million years yet they have no brains and can hardly swim. But they are super adaptable and inhabite most part of the world ocean and tolerate both warm and cold water. The population is rising due to overfishing of natural enemies and the capacity to withstand climate change. Many scientists are convinced that jellyfish blooms are on the rise. 

However the viewpoint of jellyfish as pest and plague is turning and recent research has indicated that jellyfish play a much more important role in the ecosystem than previously understood. A whole lot of animals that feed on jellyfish and they are also shelter for smaller fish.

The winners of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry owe their success to the crystal jellyfish, “Aequorea Victoria” by extracting and using green fluorescent protein (gfp) to track the development of human diseases such as cancer, HIV and alzheimer.

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