The increase in the size and frequency of jellyfish blooms in coastal and estuarine waters around the world is altering marine food webs by shunting food energy away from fish and toward bacteria, say researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS). Details of the new study, led by Rob Condon, appear in the […]
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Finally! Something that eats jellyfish
Jellyfish have few predators and the increasing incidence of ocean “dead zones” around the world has seen jellyfish populations explode in recent years. Now, however, ocean scientists have identified a common fish species that likes nothing better than jellyfish for dinner. The research, published in Science, examined an oxygen-depleted dead-zone off the coast of southwest […]