EPISODE · May 25, 2010 · 8 MIN

Amazing Jellies

from KQED Science Video Podcast · host KQED

In our second episode of Science on the SPOT, join us on a behind-the-scenes trip deep into the massive collection of marine mammal skulls at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. You'd be surprised how much you can learn about an animal's life– and death– by reading their bones.

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They are otherworldly creatures who glow in the dark, without brains or bones, some reaching 100 feet long. And they live just off California's coast. Join two top marine biologists who have devoted their careers to unlocking the mysteries of jellyfish and alien-like siphonophores.

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