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Looking for some inspirocean today? Drift away with these purple-striped jellies and sea where they take you. Float like a jellyfish, sting like a… jellyfish? The long, trailing limbs of purple-striped jellies (Chrysaora colorata) may appear elegant and decorative—but the beauty of these lacy appendages disguises what are truly stupendous stinging structures. Dangling below the jellies’ bells are thin, straight tentacles and frilly, pink oral arms (think of them as long fancy lips). Both tentacl

A few minutes of pelagic magic with wild sea nettle jellyfish, filmed just off the back deck of the Aquarium, for your littoral relaxocean needs. | Monterey Bay Aquarium