Fried egg! Fried egg! Gotta get down on fried egg! Today is an eggsellent day for admiring Phacellophora camtschatica, aka the fried egg or egg-yolk jelly.
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When these glorious golden globs glide along on the current, their colorful innards filled with plankton make them look like fried eggs—and they're over-easy on the eyes 😍
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Below the surface, the long, lacy oral arms trail down like a poached egg recently dropped into boiling water, with hundreds of sticky stinging tentacles flowing about to grab other jellies and pelagic drifters to fold into its omelette—yum!
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And who would feast on this stinging, egg-looking jelly? None other than an ocean sunfish or a leatherback sea turtle—those critters seem to love their eggs spicy đŸłđŸ„”
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