Wednesday, 24 April 2013

Jellyfish

It has such an organic move creating a ripple effect within it. They are one of the most hypnotic creature with the fact that they glow in the dark and have intriguing shapes within them….. They are a VOID in themselves.  ‘They are typified as free-swimming marine animals consisting of a gelatinous umbrella -shaped bell and trailing tentacles’
 


'Most jellyfish do not have specialized digestive, osmoregulatory, central nervous, respiratory, or circulatory systems. Jellyfish do not need a respiratory system since their skin is thin enough that the body is oxygenated by diffusion. They have limited control over movement, but can use their hydrostatic skeleton to navigate through contraction-pulsations of the bell-like body; some species actively swim most of the time, while others are mostly passive. The body is composed of over 95% water; most of the umbrella mass is a gelatinous material — the jelly — called mesoglea which is surrounded by two layers of protective skin.'

'You can even get an immortal jellyfish; Turritopsis nutricula is jellyfish form can revert to polp stage after becoming sexually mature.'


my own drawing from a jellyfish mirrored on photoshop


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