10 FACT ABOUT JELLYFISH

1 Jellyfish and cucumber are both 95 percent water.
2 In many lauguages the word for jellyfish is medusa, after the mythological Gorgon Medusa, whose snakes for hair suggested jellyfish tentacles.
3 Jellyfish do not have brain but instead have nerve nets which detect environment changes in and co-ordinates the animal's responses.
4 The earliest recorded use of the word ''jellyfish'' in English was 1707.
5 The phlaella zappal goldfish is named after US composer/guitarist Frank Zappa.

6 Jellyfish existed long before us or even the dinosaurs. They have been in the oceans for around 650million years.
7 The largest jellyfish ever found was a loin's mane jellyfish with a diameter of 7ft 6in and 120ft long tentacles.
8 If a jellyfish is cut in two , the pieces can generate and create new jellyfish.
9 A group of jellyfish is called a bloom,swrm or smack.

10 Colonies of jellyfish are either all male or all female. Both sexes relases both sperms and eggs.