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					<title>Sri Lankan study identifies new jellyfish, sparking interest in the species</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/sri-lankan-study-identifies-new-jellyfish-sparking-interest-in-the-species/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Sep 2022 17:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Malaka Rodrigo]]>
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						<![CDATA[Dilrukshi Handunnetti]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, South Asia, and Sri Lanka]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Environment, Fish, Fisheries, Jellyfish, Marine, Oceans, Research, and Species Discovery]]>
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							<![CDATA[Colombo, SRI LANKA — Like floating mushrooms with thin and transparent tentacles, jellyfish would have been drifting in the oceanic currents for several millions of years and even predating the dinosaurs’ reign on Earth. Although accidental stings and mass beaching draws some attention, no systematic study has been conducted on the jellyfish in Sri Lanka [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Colombo, SRI LANKA — Like floating mushrooms with thin and transparent tentacles, jellyfish would have been drifting in the oceanic currents for several millions of years and even predating the dinosaurs’ reign on Earth. Although accidental stings and mass beaching draws some attention, no systematic study has been conducted on the jellyfish in Sri Lanka for well over a century. It is this scientific lacuna that a new study by the Wayamba University of Sri Lanka sought to address. The study also introduced at least 10 species that were not previously known to inhabit Sri Lankan waters. The research began in 2017 and was code-named “Waya-jel-Survey” as it was based out of  Wayamba University  in Sri Lanka’s North Western province. Its best outcome was the discovery of a jellyfish species new to science. The researchers named it Carybdea wayamba, in honor of the university. It’s the first species described by the university, and researchers also say that C. wayamba is the first member of the Carybdea genus described from specimens collected from the North Indian Ocean. “Studying jellyfish is challenging, as there are only a few baseline surveys or proper identification guides,” says Krishan Karunarathne, a PhD student who initiated the Waya-jel-Survey together with his supervisor at the university, Dileepa de Croos through funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Karunarathne used several methods to collect the specimen and has gone to the sea on board fishing vessels to collect specimens entangled in nets. They also dragged a cone-shaped net on&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/sri-lankan-study-identifies-new-jellyfish-sparking-interest-in-the-species/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-260480</doi>				</item>
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					<title>A ‘FitBit for squid’ could help track the ocean’s squishier species</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/01/a-fitbit-for-squid-could-help-track-the-oceans-squishier-species/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/01/a-fitbit-for-squid-could-help-track-the-oceans-squishier-species/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>21 Jan 2019 17:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Marianne Messina]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
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							<![CDATA[United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Fisheries, Invertebrates, Jellyfish, Marine, Marine Animals, Monitoring, Oceans, Open-source, Research, Solutions, Squid, Technology, Tracking, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Research on soft-bodied marine invertebrates such as squid and jellyfish has been slow in coming. Squid are keystone taxa and important food sources for myriad larger species, said T. Aran Mooney, associate scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) in Massachusetts. Squid respond to changing climate and ocean forces, Mooney told Mongabay, and in spite [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Research on soft-bodied marine invertebrates such as squid and jellyfish has been slow in coming. Squid are keystone taxa and important food sources for myriad larger species, said T. Aran Mooney, associate scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) in Massachusetts. Squid respond to changing climate and ocean forces, Mooney told Mongabay, and in spite of recent ocean changes, their populations “are doing OK.” So learning how these animals adapt to change may have significance for climate science. A longfin inshore squid (Doryteuthis pealeii) wearing an experimental tracking tag schools with others in north Atlantic waters. Video screenshot image courtesy of Daniel Cojanu/Undercurrent Productions. The commercial value of information about squid behavior is also increasing. Squid are a short-lived animal, making their populations hard to predict from year to year. The global fishing industry harvests squid by the millions of metric tons a year, and maintaining sustainable squid stocks has been at the center of more than one international squabble. Yet scientific data about why and where squid move remain scarce. One reason for this is that traditional monitoring systems and tracking tags aren’t suited for a squid’s soft, invertebrate body. After years of “making do” with the available technology for his squid studies, Mooney created a versatile tag that allows him to research squid behavior. With the help of Kakani Katija, an engineer adapting the tag for jellyfish at California’s Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), Mooney’s team is creating a replicable system flexible enough to work across a&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/01/a-fitbit-for-squid-could-help-track-the-oceans-squishier-species/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-214765</doi>				</item>
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					<title>A ‘monoculture of jellyfish’ threatens the oceans as we know them (insider)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/a-monoculture-of-jellyfish-threatens-the-oceans-as-we-know-them-insider/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Oct 2018 20:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Fishing, Jellyfish, Oceans, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[It could be a plot of a (bad) science-fiction film: a man-made disaster creates spawns of millions upon millions of jellyfish that rapidly take over the ocean. Humans, starving for mahi-mahi and Chilean seabass, turn to jellyfish, which becomes the new tuna (after the tuna fishery has collapsed, of course). Fish sticks become jelly sticks, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[It could be a plot of a (bad) science-fiction film: a man-made disaster creates spawns of millions upon millions of jellyfish that rapidly take over the ocean. Humans, starving for mahi-mahi and Chilean seabass, turn to jellyfish, which becomes the new tuna (after the tuna fishery has collapsed, of course). Fish sticks become jelly sticks, and fish-and-chips becomes jelly-and-chips. The sci-fi film could end with the ominous image of a jellyfish evolving terrestrial limbs and pulling itself onto land — readying itself for a new conquest. Sea nettles. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay While this scenario sounds ridiculous, all of it (except the last part, of course) could conceivably come to pass. Anthony Richardson calls this the “jellyfish joyride” and it is already happening in parts of the ocean: diverse fish populations are being replaced by jellyfish. &#8220;Dense jellyfish aggregations can be a natural feature of healthy ocean ecosystems, but a clear picture is now emerging of more severe and frequent jellyfish outbreaks worldwide,” says Richardson, from the University of Queensland and CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship in Australia. &#8220;In recent years, jellyfish blooms have been recorded in the Mediterranean, the Gulf of Mexico, the Black and Caspian Seas, the Northeast US coast, and particularly in Far East coastal waters.” Once jellyfish gain a foothold, and if conditions are right, Richardson says, they can establish a massive population at the expense of other ocean life. “The problem is that jellyfish might form an alternative ‘stable state,’” he says. “What&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/a-monoculture-of-jellyfish-threatens-the-oceans-as-we-know-them-insider/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-211570</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Videos unlock secrets of jellyfish as deep-sea killers</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/12/videos-unlock-secrets-of-deep-sea-killers/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Dec 2017 14:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[California, Pacific Ocean, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Deep Sea, Ecology, Fish, Jellyfish, Oceans, Strange, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Scientists have for the first time captured extensive visual documentation of predation events that underpin deep-sea food webs. The research, which relies on hundreds of video observations captured over nearly three decades by deep-diving remotely operated vehicles run by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), reveals the importance of deep-sea jellies in these ecosystems [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Video footage of a Gonatus squid feeding on a bathylagid fish. &copy; of MBARI Scientists have for the first time captured extensive visual documentation of predation events that underpin deep-sea food webs. The research, which relies on hundreds of video observations captured over nearly three decades by deep-diving remotely operated vehicles run by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), reveals the importance of deep-sea jellies in these ecosystems as major predators and sources of sustenance. Until now, our understanding of food webs in the deep ocean have been limited by what species can be captured by net and whose bodies can survive a journey to the surface. That meant soft-bodied, gelatinous animals like jellyfish have been greatly underrepresented using traditional surveying techniques. MBARI&#8217;s approach enabled researchers Anela Choy, Steven Haddock, and Bruce Robison to capture deep-sea predators in the act of feeding, offering new insight into predator-prey relationships at depths up to nearly 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) off the California coast. “This direct approach has never been used systematically before,&#8221; Robison said in a statement. &#8220;Unlike other methods, it involves no guesswork and provides very precise information about who eats whom in the deep sea.” ROV frame grabs of pelagic predators and their prey from Choy et al (2017). (a) Gonatus squid feeding on a bathylagid fish (Bathylagidae). (b) Periphylla periphylla, the helmet jellyfish, feeding on a gonatid squid (Gonatidae), with a small narcomedusa (Aegina sp.) also captured. Images &copy; MBARI; caption adapted from Choy et al (2017). The&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/12/videos-unlock-secrets-of-deep-sea-killers/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-202421</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Animal Earth: exploring the hidden biodiversity of our planet</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/12/animal-earth-exploring-the-hidden-biodiversity-of-our-planet/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Dec 2013 15:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Owen Reynolds]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Deep Sea, Endangered Species, Environment, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Insects, Interviews, Invertebrates, Jellyfish, Marine, Marine Animals, Microorganisms, Oceans, Photos, Rainforests, Science, Strange, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[A sea angel, Clione limacine. In this image the grasping tentacles and chitinous hooks are retracted. Photo by: Alexander Semenov. Most of the species on Earth we never see. In fact, we have no idea what they look like, much less how spectacular they are. In general, people can identify relatively few of their backyard [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A sea angel, Clione limacine. In this image the grasping tentacles and chitinous hooks are retracted. Photo by: Alexander Semenov. Most of the species on Earth we never see. In fact, we have no idea what they look like, much less how spectacular they are. In general, people can identify relatively few of their backyard species, much less those of other continents. This disconnect likely leads to an inability in the general public to relate to biodiversity and, by extension, the loss of it. One of the most remarkable books I have read is a recent release that makes serious strides to repair that disconnect and affirm the human bond with biodiversity. Animal Earth: The Amazing Diversity of Living Creatures written by Ross Piper, a zoologist with the University of Leeds, opens up the door to discovery. In Animal Earth, Piper describes with romantic enthusiasm all 35 lineages of the animal kingdom with 540 illustrations. From spiders to aphids, monkeys to crustaceans, and all the animals in between, the author expands our comprehension of the vastness of the animal kingdom in Animal Earth: The Amazing Diversity of Living Creatures. It is visually stunning, easy-to-read and comes with a companion YouTube.com website. If you are curious, scientific or just interested in the diversity of the animal kingdom, this is the book for you. INTERVIEW WITH ROSS PIPER Ross Piper. Photo courtesy of Ross Piper. Mongabay:What was the first species that caught your attention? Ross Piper: I remember first reading about and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/12/animal-earth-exploring-the-hidden-biodiversity-of-our-planet/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-25982</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Poisonous jellyfish on the rise in the Mediterranean</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/06/poisonous-jellyfish-on-the-rise-in-the-mediterranean/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Jun 2013 15:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Giles Tremlett]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Europe, Mediterranean Sea, and Middle East]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Environment, Fishing, Global Warming, Green, Impact Of Climate Change, Invertebrates, Jellyfish, Overfishing, and Poisoning]]>
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							<![CDATA[Scientists across the Mediterranean say a surge in the number of jellyfish this year threatens not just the biodiversity of one of the world&#8217;s most overfished seas but also the health of tens of thousands of summer tourists. &#8220;I flew along a 300km stretch of coastline on 21 April and saw millions of jellyfish,&#8221; said [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Scientists across the Mediterranean say a surge in the number of jellyfish this year threatens not just the biodiversity of one of the world&#8217;s most overfished seas but also the health of tens of thousands of summer tourists. &#8220;I flew along a 300km stretch of coastline on 21 April and saw millions of jellyfish,&#8221; said Professor Stefano Piraino of Salento University in southern Italy. Piraino is the head of a Mediterranean-wide project to track the rise in the number of jellyfish as global warming and overfishing clear the way for them to prosper. &#8220;Citizen scientists&#8221; armed with smartphones and a special app are now tracking them along thousands of miles of Mediterranean coastline. Population growth has continued over the four years of the project, and appears to be part of a global phenomenon, with most coastal areas studied around the world also reporting a rise in numbers. &#8220;There are now beaches on the island of Lampedusa, which receives 300,000 tourists a year, where people can only swim for a week in the summer,&#8221; said Piraino. Josep María Gili, a veteran jellyfish researcher at the Institute of Marine Sciences in Barcelona, said: &#8220;It is a growing problem in the Mediterranean, as it is in the rest of the world. But the problem is at its greatest in the open sea.&#8221; The institute has detected a surge this spring in one of the most poisonous species, the mauve stinger or Pelagia noctiluca, along the coast of Catalonia and Valencia. &#8220;We have seen&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/06/poisonous-jellyfish-on-the-rise-in-the-mediterranean/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-28865</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Blue tarantula, walking cactus, and a worm from Hell: the top 10 new species of 2011</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/05/blue-tarantula-walking-cactus-and-a-worm-from-hell-the-top-10-new-species-of-2011/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 May 2012 17:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, Borneo, Brazil, Caribbean, China, East Africa, Latin America, Malaysia, Myanmar, South America, Southeast Asia, and Tanzania]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Ants, Biodiversity, Critically Endangered Species, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Flowers, Fungi, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Invertebrates, Jellyfish, Marine, Marine Animals, Oceans, Orchids, Plants, Rainforests, Species Discovery, Spiders, Strange, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Sazima&#8217;s tarantula: one of the top ten new species discovered in 2011 according to the annual list by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University. Photo by: Caroline S. Fukushima. A sneezing monkey, a blue tarantula, and an extinct walking cactus are just three of the remarkable new species listed in the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Sazima&#8217;s tarantula: one of the top ten new species discovered in 2011 according to the annual list by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University. Photo by: Caroline S. Fukushima. A sneezing monkey, a blue tarantula, and an extinct walking cactus are just three of the remarkable new species listed in the annual Top Ten New Species put together by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University. This year&#8217;s list includes a wide-variety of life forms from fungi to flower and invertebrate to primate. &#8220;The top 10 is intended to bring attention to the biodiversity crisis and the unsung species explorers and museums who continue a 250-year tradition of discovering and describing the millions of kinds of plants, animals and microbes with whom we share this planet,&#8221; explains Quentin Wheeler, an entomologist who directs the International Institute for Species Exploration. The list is released every year on May 23rd to commemorate Carolus Linnaeus, the father of taxonomy. Top Ten New Species of 2011 in Photos and Video This mysterious primate (seen here in a reconstruction) not only made headlines last year, but continues to do so as a population of the believed to be Critically Endangered species was recently found in China. The new monkey, the Myanmar snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus strykeri), was discovered byway of a carcass killed by a local hunter. Since then camera trap photos and video have been taken of the species. They are reportedly easy to hunt as locals say&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/05/blue-tarantula-walking-cactus-and-a-worm-from-hell-the-top-10-new-species-of-2011/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30884</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Jellyfish explosion may be natural cycle</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/02/jellyfish-explosion-may-be-natural-cycle/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Feb 2012 13:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Climate Change, Dead Zone, Environment, Green, Impact Of Climate Change, Invertebrates, Jellyfish, Marine, Marine Animals, Oceans, Overfishing, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Evidence that jellyfish are taking over the oceans is currently lacking, according to a new study published in Bioscience. Complied by a number of marine experts, the study found that while jellyfish have been on the rise in some regions it is likely due to a natural cycle of jellyfish populations and not a global [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Evidence that jellyfish are taking over the oceans is currently lacking, according to a new study published in Bioscience. Complied by a number of marine experts, the study found that while jellyfish have been on the rise in some regions it is likely due to a natural cycle of jellyfish populations and not a global boom. Researchers, including a number of marine biologists, have warned for years that jellyfish numbers may be exploding due to human activities, such as overfishing, warmer oceans due to global climate change, and the rise of oxygen-depleted, so-called &#8220;dead zones.&#8221; &#8220;Clearly, there are areas where jellyfish have increased&#8212;the situation with the Giant Jellyfish in Japan is a classic example,&#8221; says lead author Rob Condon, marine scientist at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL) in the U.S. &#8220;But there are also areas where jellyfish have decreased, or fluctuate over the decadal periods.&#8221; Looking over data going back to 1790, researchers did not see any long-term upswing in jellyfish populations, but rather boom-and-bust cycles that have been occurring for centuries. &#8220;The past period of rise was in the mid-90s to about 2005, and that&#8217;s when all the papers claiming there was a global rise came out,&#8221; Carlos Duarte, director of the Oceans Institute at the University of Western Australia, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). &#8220;So in fact there was a little bit of support for that because there was more a general rise than the previous decade, but this is not unprecedented. If we looked at&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/02/jellyfish-explosion-may-be-natural-cycle/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-31366</doi>				</item>
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