Note:The Pacific Sea Nettle (Chrysaora fuscescens), or West Coast Sea Nettle, is a widespread Planktonic, Scyphozon, Cnidarian or medusa, or Jelly Fish that lives in the North Eastern Pacific Ocean in temperate to cooler waters off British Columbia and the US Pacific Coast ranging south to Mexico The Pacific sea nettle earned its common name in-reference to its defensive, Nettle -like sting; much like the sting Nettle plant (Urtica dioica), the sea nettle’s defensive sting is often irritating (possibly mildly painful) to humans, though rarely dangerous. Jelly Fish are more than 500 Million year old, so 250 million years older than Dinosaurs [the Earth is thought to have for 4.4 Billion years ago] and so these creatures represent the very peak of resilience.
Date: 11/10/2010
Photographer: Neville Clark
