Gorgeous video explains why there’s no such thing as a jellyfish

It ’s wrong to lump all the sea ’s jelly - same creatures into one category “ jellyfish . ” So this video from the tremendous The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute breaks down all the glorious multifariousness of these magical sea animal .

From MBARI :

By all accounts , jellyfish are creatures that kill people , feed microbes , grow to tens of meter , filter phytoplankton , take over ecosystem , and live forever and a day . Because of the immense multifariousness of gelatinlike plankton , jelly - similar wight can individually have each of these properties . However this fashion of looking at them both overstates and underrate their truthful diversity . Taxonomically , they are far more varied than a handful of exemplars that are used to lay out jellyfish or especially the so - called “ true ” man-of-war . Ecologically , they are even more adaptable than one would expect by looking only at the conspicuous rosiness form families and species that draw most of the care . In realism , the most abundant and diverse gelatinous groups in the sea are not the I that anyone ever sees .