Lydia Smith is a health and science journalist who works for U.K. and U.S. publications. She is studying for an MSc in psychology at the University of Glasgow and has an MA in English literature from King's College London.
A strange,never-before-seen jellyfish with a distinctive stomach that looks like a red cross has been discovered inside a volcanic structure off the coast of Japan.
The jellyfish is so rare it has only ever been spotted twice. It was first seen in 2002 by a remotely operated vehicle during a dive in the Sumisu caldera. However, researchers could not describe a newfound species based on a single specimen, as it could have been a mutated individual belonging to an already-known species, according to a statement from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology .
This second encounter enabled them to describe the jellyfish as a unique species. The team reported its findings in a study published Nov. 20, 2023, in the journal Zootaxa.
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