Jellyfish found frolicking 600 feet under the Antarctic ice

Image credit: NASA
From NASA:
In a surprising discovery about where higher life can thrive, scientists for the first time found a shrimp-like creature and a jellyfish frolicking beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet.
Six hundred feet below the ice where no light shines, scientists had figured nothing much more than a few microbes could exist.
That’s why a [...]

Space Jelly Entering the Upper Atmosphere

From Spaceweather.com:

Here you can see the giant Space Jelly descending into the polar Aurora in an attempt to camouflage itself. As they say, this won’t hurt a bit.

Jely Supports The Troops

This year, Jely is proud to help support the troops through the literacy non-profit Books For Soldiers. Last year, BFS shipped $2.9 million in aid to deployed US troops and we are looking forward to helping them in 2010.
Here is how the donation program works:

$1 for every person who registers with Jely and invites their [...]

Stress Test for Monday, Dec. 14th

Hi all!
We are gearing up for the travel season and are doing a stress test on Jely on Dec. 14th.
Please use Jely all you want and especially for airport tweets – just add your airport code to the end of our URL (example: http://je.ly/SFO, http://je.ly/CLT, http://je.ly/OAK)
Please test Jely with your local airport! We [...]

OK… Jely is open!

Hi all!
We launched a new project today – Jely (http://je.ly). For months you have had to put up with pictures of Jellyfish and the frequent story of jellies taking over the planet. We were cranking on our code and waned to put something on our blog.
This release of Jely creates Tweetable URLs for travel and [...]

The Silent Invasion Of Immortal Jellyfish

From The Telegraph:
The Turritopsis Nutricula is able to revert back to a juvenile form once it mates after becoming sexually mature.
Marine biologists say the jellyfish numbers are rocketing because they need not die.
Dr Maria Miglietta of the Smithsonian Tropical Marine Institute said: “We are looking at a worldwide silent invasion.”
The jellyfish are originally from [...]

Japanese fishing trawler sunk by giant jellyfish

The trawler, the Diasan Shinsho-maru, capsized off Chiba`as its three-man crew was trying to haul in a net containing dozens of huge Nomura’s jellyfish.
Each of the jellyfish can weigh up to 200 kg and waters around Japan have been inundated with the creatures this year. Experts believe weather and water conditions in the breeding grounds, [...]

Gratuitous Jellyfish Photo of the Week (from space)

The invasion begins!
The Jellyfish Nebula on Wikipedia

Gratuitous Jellyfish Photo of the Week

Shiff arms jellyfish (Rhizostoma pulmo), originally uploaded by Arne Kuilman.

Jellyfish Give Their Lives To Protect Sardines

Jellyfish from the waters off of the South Korean town of Tongyeong are being found in the anchovy nets of the local fisherman. In a Joong Ang Daily article, the fisherman claim the jellies emit a toxin that kills small fish. But we know the real story here.
The jellyfish are giving their lives to [...]