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    Jellyfish are free-swimming marine animals found in every ocean. They have an umbrella-shaped bell and trailing tentacles, which they use to capture prey like plankton, crustaceans, fish eggs, and smaller fish. Jellyfish protect themselves from predators such as tuna, sharks, and salmon using stinging cells called cnidocytes located on their tentacles. They can reproduce both sexually by releasing sperm and eggs into the water, and asexually through budding. Jellyfish have existed for nearly 770 million years and range greatly in size.

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    Jellyfish are free-swimming marine animals found in every ocean. They have an umbrella-shaped bell and trailing tentacles, which they use to capture prey like plankton, crustaceans, fish eggs, and smaller fish. Jellyfish protect themselves from predators such as tuna, sharks, and salmon using stinging cells called cnidocytes located on their tentacles. They can reproduce both sexually by releasing sperm and eggs into the water, and asexually through budding. Jellyfish have existed for nearly 770 million years and range greatly in size.

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    Jellyfish are free-swimming marine animals found in every ocean. They have an umbrella-shaped bell and trailing tentacles, which they use to capture prey like plankton, crustaceans, fish eggs, and smaller fish. Jellyfish protect themselves from predators such as tuna, sharks, and salmon using stinging cells called cnidocytes located on their tentacles. They can reproduce both sexually by releasing sperm and eggs into the water, and asexually through budding. Jellyfish have existed for nearly 770 million years and range greatly in size.

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    Q1) Jellyfish are the major non-polyp form of individuals of the phylum Cnidaria category.

    Q2) They are typified as free-swimming marine animals consisting of a gelatinous umbrella-
    shaped bell and trailing tentacles. The bell can pulsate for locomotion, while stinging
    tentacles can be used to capture prey.
    Q3) Jellyfish are found in every ocean, from the surface to the deep sea.
    Q4) Jellies are carnivorous, feeding on plankton, crustaceans, fish eggs, small fish and other
    jellyfish, ingesting and voiding through the same hole in the middle of the bell. Jellies hunt
    passively using their tentacles as drift nets.
    Q5) Other species of jellyfish are among the most common and important jellyfish predators,
    some of which specialize in jellies. Other predators include tuna, shark, swordfish, sea turtles,
    and at least one species of Pacific salmon. Sea birds sometimes pick symbiotic crustaceans
    from the jellyfish bells near the sea's surface, inevitably feeding also on the jellyfish hosts of
    these amphipods or young crabs and shrimp.
    Q6) Jellyfish protect their selves by stinging predators with their tentacles or with their oral
    arms. Jellyfish have cells called cnidocytes, which contain nematocysts, and located on their
    tentacles and on their manubrium. Whenever a predator comes in contact with cnidocytes,
    hundreds to thousands of cnidae (filaments of the nematocysts) are ejected into the predator's
    direction. Nematocysts' cnidae inoculate a poisonous or allergenic mixture into the predator's
    body.
    Q7) Jellyfish reproduce both sexually and asexually. The adult jellyfish release sperm and
    eggs into the water, where the eggs are fertilized. In some species, the sperm actually swim in
    the jellyfish's mouth and fertilize the egg that way.
    Q8) No threats apart from the predators.
    Q9) I like the most is their outer physical shape the most, as they are very flexible and
    transparent and look very peaceful and attractive.
    Q10) An interesting fact about jellyfish is that they have been around for almost 770 million
    years. And their size can range from 4 millimeters to 2 meters in diameter and their life span
    range from few hours to six months.

    Resources:
    http://oceana.org/en/eu/media-reports/features/about-jellyfish
    http://animals.jrank.org/pages/1490/Jellyfish-Scyphozoa-PHYSICAL-CHARACTERISTICS.html

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