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BBC - Earth News - Predatory coral eats jellyfish

news.bbc.co.uk — A coral is recorded eating a jellyfish for the first time, in intriguing photographs taken by scientists.

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  • gbudavid, on 11/13/2009, -4/+20NOM Nom Nom,,,.....Where's the Peanut Butter?????
  • BrownieMix, on 11/15/2009, -1/+12They could make such a great Spongebob episode centered around this.
  • avitorio, on 11/15/2009, -3/+10We need more predatory coral! Jellyfishes are among the most useless and annoying animals in the world. They are like land mines floating in the ocean.
  • DaviDTC, on 11/15/2009, -1/+7But a seahorse is actually a horse right?
  • Mawds, on 11/15/2009, -0/+6Squidward goes to Coral Town...
  • AndrewDB, on 11/15/2009, -1/+7Jellyfish aren't actually ... fish.
  • Junkyarddawg, on 11/15/2009, -1/+6What?
    _Fungia_ and other large-polyped corals (a single polyp may be 10" across) don't feed on "microscopic particles", they're night-feeding predators, completely unlike small-polyped corals like Staghorn coral. I had an Open Brain coral (_Trachyphyllia_) in my aquarium I used to feed 2" silversides (baitfish). If a jellyfish hits the tentacles of an Open Brain or a Fungia, it's going down.
  • Junkyarddawg, on 11/15/2009, -0/+5Considerably more impressive:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au_3czLWYjI
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cShY4wsZ28Q&fea ...
  • Suricou, on 11/15/2009, -1/+6And they breed at an incredible rate.
  • exeprime, on 11/15/2009, -1/+6CORAL YOU'RE AWESOME
  • AndrewDB, on 11/15/2009, -1/+5Of course!
  • ChileanGoD, on 11/15/2009, -1/+4Hopefully, they will not develop a taste for flesh.
  • 4degrees, on 11/15/2009, -0/+2increasingly acidic oceans lead to man eating coral... check.

    /s
  • NarcisseDeD, on 11/15/2009, -0/+2That's overstated.
  • VitriolAndAngst, on 11/16/2009, -0/+2I'm sure to other starfish, this is the equivalent of getting beat up by a Clown -- sure it can happen, and sure it can hurt, but everybody is going to laugh.
  • mstachiw, on 11/15/2009, -1/+2Jellyfish at the OK Coral
  • SirLowKey, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1Jellyfish is very tasty and served with roasted piglet as combined dish in many restaurants here.
  • damnshoes, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1well, i never knew coral ate plankton in the first place. :-/
  • skate3214, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1Who will save the Jellyseakittens!
  • milkmage, on 11/15/2009, -1/+2you didn't really mean to use a derogatory term to describe the people of Japan did you?
  • AndrewDB, on 11/15/2009, -1/+1Dude, it was a joke, take it easy.
  • gilbes, on 11/15/2009, -1/+1Who ***** cares if they are fish. Are you trying to say that jellyfish are not sea kittens.

    Well I have news for you, there is no such thing. PETA made it up. Nothing is a sea kitten.

    You are way too dense to get the sarcasm. Work on that.
  • b33x, on 11/15/2009, -2/+1I for one, welcome our Coral Overlord.
  • piieerrrree, on 11/15/2009, -2/+1Save the coral ecosystem!
    ***** YOU JERRIFISH
  • borez, on 11/15/2009, -3/+2FIGHT.
  • Atrius, on 11/15/2009, -9/+7Damn nature, you scary!
  • 3rdDay, on 11/15/2009, -5/+3That pic looks like some really far out Jap porn. O_o
  • gilbes, on 11/15/2009, -12/+2Take that PETA. Even coral eat sea kittens you simple, deranged idiots.

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