This is how jellyfish can sting you without even touching you

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The upside-down jellyfish creates “stinging water” to execute its prey

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Most of us know to now not prance a jellyfish, but some jellies can sting you without touching you – by detaching tiny bits of their body that drift off into the ocean and circulate around independently.

Upside-down jellyfish jettison miniature balls of stinging cells in a network of sticky mucus, to execute prey equivalent to little. The jellies then appear to suck of their dinner by pulsating.

It’s as if we may presumably presumably spit out our teeth and so they killed things for us by some means, says Cheryl Ames at Tohoku College …

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