Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Jellyfish are sometimes washed up on shores by the hordes and people do not know why. They are also sometimes spotted floating around in seas that aren't their home. Some scientists are speculating that these phenomenons are might be evidences of our global warming. Which some skeptics around the world are still denying. This is also proof that the seas are changing. By that, I'm referring to the temperatures, currents, tides, et cetera. All in all, the environment for our marine life.

Because of this apparent global warming, most of our marine life is forced to leave home to find better grounds to survive and reproduce. This causes problems to the food cycle of the area as the new animal might overfeed and cause another species to become endangered or even, extinct. And this is just one of the few problems that will occur. The problem will continue in a vicious cycle, till everything in the ecosystem is balanced out again.

Not just the marine life, even our land creatures, Humans, will be affected. As such, some fishermen are already devastated by the invasion of jellyfish in the seas as, not only do the massive jellyfish rip the nets, their poisonous tentacles spoil the catch. Over these five years, the fishermen have been at loss to the invasion, slashing the creatures to bits, which in turn, releases millions of its "eggs" into the seabed that develop into the jellyfish. This again, creates yet another vicious cycle.

Other than fishermen, swimmers in the open sea are also affected. Most jellyfish are almost invisible in the waters and have tentacles that when touched, releases an extremely painful to near fatal sting. Especially the box jellyfish, it is almost transparent, plus its tentacles could reach up to 3 metres in length.

Now back to our main character. My video and [The jellyfish]. This is just an amazing reference picture taken from Discovery News.


Another article will be posted regarding that. This post might be too long.

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