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Gifts to make your friends jelly
Enjoy the mesmerizing tranquility of our jellies when you bring home products from our Jellies Collection.
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Get an up-close look at the delicate sea nettles in our Open Sea exhibit
Watch our sea nettles as their long tentacles and lacey mouth-arms move smoothly through the water. But don't let these unassuming invertebrates fool you—their graceful trailing parts are covered in stinging cells used for hunting as they drift through open waters. When their tentacles touch tiny prey, the stinging cells paralyze it and stick tight. The prey is moved to the mouth-arms and then to the mouth, where it's digested.
Discover these brilliant jellies pulsing in our Open Sea exhibit.
Discover sea nettles and other jellies
Sea nettle
Sea nettle
It hunts tiny drifting animals by trailing long tentacles and frilly mouth-arms covered in stinging cells.
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Purple-striped jelly
Purple-striped jelly
Flowy and colorful, the purple-striped jelly can grow to be large and striking.
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Egg-yolk jelly
Egg-yolk jelly
Like an underwater spider web, an egg-yolk jelly captures other jellies that swim into its mass of tentacles.
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Comb jelly
Comb jelly
A comb jelly's rows of tiny beating cilia break up light, producing a shimmering rainbow effect as they swim.
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