Cnidaria
The name Cnidaria comes from the Greek word "cnidos", which means stinging nettle. When you touch the nematocysts it releases barbed threads tipped with poison. There are thousands of cnidaria species in the worlds oceans. There are even some species that are found in rivers and fresh water lakes.Cn....
Into the Mysterious Lives of Jelly fish
Many people wonder just what a jelly fish is. Is it a fish? Is it a mammal? To answer that question, many sea jellies belong to a group of animals called Cnidaria, a coelenterate animal. Jellyfish do not have a brain or any sophisticated sense organs. They are one of the few animals th....
Jellyfish
Nichole Howe
Research Paper
Biology
October 29, 2007
Jellyfish
Jellyfish inhabit every major ocean of the world and they are cable to withstand a wide range of temperatures and salinities. They have been around for over six hundred and fifty million years, which is prior to the dinosaurs. ....
kingdoms of living organisms
Scientists have found and described approximately 1.75 million species on Earth. Plus, new species are being discovered every day. One way to make sense of it is by classification. Scientists put similar species into groups so that those millions of species do not seem so overwhelming. People rely o....