General Robots

It’s the dreaded Killer Jellyfish of Graphic Design Favors

Alles schon gemacht auf die eine oder andere Art.

Killer Jellyfish of Graphic Design Favors (via Clients from hell)

Fleischfressende Seesterne und gigantische Quallen


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Mal wieder ein bisschen Seamonster-Action: Oben ein weiteres Video aus der BBC-Naturdoku „Life“, diesmal mit Timelapse-Seesternen und gigantischen Würmern, die einen toten Seehund fressen. Seesterne fressen übrigens wie Fliegen: „Three-foot nemertean worms and carnivorous sea stars prowl the Antarctic in search of flesh. Finding a dead seal, the sea stars inject it with digestive juices … then suck it up like soup.“

Bonustrack: Ein Video mit gigantischen Quallen, die Boote kentern lassen und „bigger than Sumo-Wrestler“ sind. Only in Japan.


(Youtube Direktjellyfish, via Japan Probe)

Vast numbers of Echizen jellyfish have appeared on Japan’s Pacific coast this year, apparently after drifting from spawning grounds in Chinese and Korean waters.

An Echizen jellyfish can measure up to 2.2 meters in diameter and weigh up to 300 kg.

The non-edible creatures have caught fishermen in their grip, as the monster invertebrates clog nets and poison and crush catches with their stingers.

“I had never seen anything like this big before.”

Some experts say the outbreak of jellyfish this season has cost Japan’s fishing industry more than 100 million dollars.

Jellyfish even sank one Japanese fishing boat in the Pacific recently, after the vessel capsized because the weight of the creature stuck in its net.

Bloodybelly Comb Jelly


(Youtube DirektBloodbelly, via Feingut)

Hier ein Video mit der Bloodybelly Comb Jelly in Action und nein, das sind keine LEDs, die da rumblinken.

Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Lightshow aus der Tiefsee
Glow in the Dark-Shrimps
Deepsea Jellyfish Discolights

Quallen-Fotografie

James Pan hat ein paar sehr schöne Shots von Quallen am Start. Und an dieser Stelle möchte ich nochmal meine Neigung zur englischen Sprache erklären. Qualle. Jellyfish. Nuff said.

Jellyfish Series (via KFMW)

Tentakelwürste (2)

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Als ich vor ein paar Wochen die Tentakelwürste bloggte, meinte die Hälfte von Euch, die schon zu kennen, weil Mutti die früher auch schon so gemacht hätte. Nun, ich wette meinen Arsch darauf: Das hier kennt Ihr noch nicht. In Bock- oder Fleischwurststücke einfach ein paar ungekochte Spaghetti stecken und zusammen kochen, voila: Tentakelwürste, die wie Quallen aussehen. Das werde ich demnächst auf jeden Fall mal ausprobieren.

inserting dry spaghetti into hot dogs (via BoingBoing)

Deepsea Jellyfish Discolights


(Liveleak Direkt, via Growabrain)

Das hier ist keine regenbogenfarbene LED-Lampe und auch kein Alien aus Camerons „Abyss“, sondern eine rote Qualle in der Tiefsee, die offensichtlich für die Beleuchtung in „Saturday Night Fever“ verantwortlich war. Blink, blink!

Vintage Deepsea-Creatures aus Glas

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io9 hat im Science Museum ein paar über einhundert Jahre alte Glasfiguren gefunden, alles Viecher aus der Tiefsee. Glas-Kraken, Glas-Quallen, Glas-Korallen… Aaaaaw! Ich liebe es!

This gorgeous glass sculpture of an Actinophryid, an ocean microorganism, is over 100 years old. It’s one the few surviving scientific models of tiny, swimming creatures created by a father-son team of glassmakers.

A few years ago, Wisconsin Zoological Museum worker Paula Holahan opened some cabinets that hadn’t been touched for decades. Inside, she found several boxes of delicate glass replicas of ocean life.

A Rare Collection of Victorian Glass Microbes

Box Jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri) The Most Venomous Creature In The World!

The Box Jellyfish or (Chironex fleckeri) is actually just one of the 28 species of Box Jellyfish. The Chironex fleckeri is the most famous of the Box Jellyfish due to its large appearance and deadly sting. The venom from one of these creatures is strong enough to kill up to 60 humans in as little as 3 minutes from just one of its up to 60 tentacles. This makes it the most venomous jellyfish in the world! In fact, this creature’s venom is so quick to act that it is actually the most venomous creature in the entire world! Quicker than any snake, spider or insect anywhere on planet earth.

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Robot Jellyfish

Aqua-Jelly ist im Rahmen des Bionik Learning Networks entstanden, Vorbild für diesen wunderschönen Robot ist wie so oft die Natur – in diesem Fall: Quallen.

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A Lot of Jelly Fish at the Black Sea

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Killer jellyfish population explosion warning

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It could easily have been the role model for the terrifying creature in the film ‘Alien’. A perfect toxin-loaded killing machine, there is no creature on earth that can dispatch a human being so easily or so quickly. The box jellyfish is so packed with venom that the briefest of touches can bring agonising death within 180 seconds. And if comes under sustained attack it responds by sending its compatriots into a super-breeding frenzy in which millions of replacements are created. The really bad news is that the box jellyfish and another equally poisonous species, Irukandji, are on the move. Scientists are warning that their populations are exploding and will pose a monumental problem unless they are stopped.

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