Jellyfish 101 | Nat Geo Wild

How much do you really know about jellyfish? Given their diverse evolutionary history, jellies exhibit a fantastic range of shapes, sizes, and behaviors. Learn all about these squishy, brainless, beautiful creatures. Also make sure to read the full October 2018 National Geographic magazine feature story: www.nationalgeographic.com/ma...
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[@NatGeoWild]

Jellyfish are some of the most diverse and fascinating creatures in the sea. What intrigues you the most about these animals?

[@aoife235]

Nat Geo WILD their stinging cells!

[@Korokorokorokoro4662]

Their beautiful movement

[@talatalatae6391]

Nat Geo WILD บ

[@kingjeremysircornwell7847]

There life spans.

[@CC-ml4nu]

Their spiritual meaning.

[@Astigmatisism]

when you panic and accidentally reverse your aging process

[@yeeyeeyeeyee1270]

Happens every time so annoying

[@itzpayday1238]

@@yeeyeeyeeyee1270 bro I got a c- in algebra and before I even knew it, I was a 2 year old

[@gypsydemon5650]

Huh?

[@dilaraunlu1721]

she said "im baby 😌👶🏼🍼"

[@dakotadirden9834]

Sounds like something the flash would do

[@flap.d.jack247]

Every time I think Jellyfish, I think of that one guy who says: “these creatures have survived for Millions of years without a brain, a ray of hope for some of my fellow coworkers”

[@raccoonchild]

Very inspirational 😂

[@lalalalalala9333]

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

[@fns2071]

David Attenborough

[@Leeohlin89]

Lol!

[@THEREALGATES]

😐

[@tsukurikata774]

If I died and could be reborn as an animal or other life-form, I would be a jellyfish. I would just float in the ocean without a care in the world, letting the waves carry me to who knows where.

[@Unknown-gf1ci]

Same

[@MsTinaLatina]

i always say the same thing!

[@Graveyardpicnic]

You seem stressed :(

[@tsukurikata774]

@@Graveyardpicnic Can't deny that.

[@WIZMXNTE]

You’d be eaten by turtles...

[@shiroshika1]

Jellyfish and me have a respectful understanding of each other. I don't go into their ocean and they stay away from my house.

[@barium_67]

Such comedy much wow

[@AQ-101]

@@barium_67 XD

[@pikachu-jf2oh]

@@barium_67 doge

[@thedemonhater7748]

Tbf they don’t know your house exists lool

[@FemboySprite101]

@@thedemonhater7748 you ruined the joke

[@jacoblofthus7908]

Shark: I'm the most feared creature in the sea! Box jellyfish: Hold my mesoglea.

[@JackBarrBaxter]

1. Sharks can't hold a jellyfish's mesoglea as they don't have hands. 2. Jellyfish wouldn't go near sharks. 3. Sharks and jellyfish don't speak English.

[@sallywater5029]

😂😂😂

[@gokuakku9833]

@@JackBarrBaxter 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@JackBarrBaxter]

@@guerreromusicbeats6561 The joke wasn't funny to me and has been overdone.

[@1kwithabunchofplaylist..382]

@@JackBarrBaxter 😂😂

[@Jasmine-ff6ss]

They’re so otherworldly, it’s incredible to think that a certain kind could be immortal that’s unbelievable

[@ben8718]

they are super simple animals and there isn't much to maintain, made of pure sea water mostly and they have no brain no heart and no blood to worry about being damaged, while us humans would die from a tiny burst of blood vessel, if we could figure out a way for humans to not use blood to carry nutrients, we would probably live much longer i think? at least our number one killers like heart attacks and strokes would be avoided. not sure how to revert the age of our cells though..

[@Mxun]

Its amazing how they could reverse their life

[@hernancortez1571]

We Can reverse Too Did You Know Its Called Cycle of life make babies reproduce our genes

[@thedemonhater7748]

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Jelly the Wise?

[@fulltimespy]

Jellyfish are my favorite animal. I remember as a kid swimming in the greece sea, I saw a huge black spot. I dove under the water to grab it, it was a giant darkbrown jellyfish, with a bunch of tiny fish underneath it. At the time I was super scared, but now I appreciate it's beauty! :)

[@Capogenge]

I got bit by one

[@mcanine2221]

@@Capogenge they don't bite lol

[@athina2096]

@@Capogenge they sting not bite

[@StickyKeys187]

Did you get paralyzed? Grabbing a jellyfish is just a Darwin award moment lmao.

[@kivaari4184]

@@StickyKeys187 bro in this video it literally says not all jellyfish have stingers 😭

[@delilah6051]

“Box jellyfish are the most venomous marine animals in the world” *cameraman swims very close to it*

[@Cruz-px7sr]

Huh

[@bamboozledpotat3784]

The cameraman is god he cant die

[@stargirl3455]

Well, he probably has protective gear, or he must be a big fan of box jellyfish

[@xavoclass3443]

He probably used the zoom feature

[@ifactkeeper5460]

Stinging of a Box Jellyfish stops the heartbeat of that person within 2 minutes Due to which that person dies.

[@azix2915]

Of course it has 'Australia' on the name of the most venomous jellyfish. Is there like some evolutionary theories or explanation behind why most of the dangerous species existing today were originated from Australia?

[@Horny_Fruit_Flies]

Actually, there is. According to PhD Karl Pilkington, Snakes, Spiders, and other venomous creatures tend to hide under rocks. The Earth is one big rock, Australia is at the bottom of that rock, and they try to hide under it.

[@onlylanguage9718]

What is the point of this stupid comment?

[@kenjirodriguez1642]

idiot

[@Geoff9001]

It's because The Simulation has dictated that Australia have the most venomous animals. Duh

[@Jiffy360]

It was probably just an arms race. A few creatures developed venom here and there, they thrived, a few more creatures developed some stronger venom, and an arms race begins.

[@dububro]

3:13 sounds like the humans are causing more problems for the jellies than the other way around

[@bothigati]

Right!? The irony of "jellyfish cause problems for fishers equipment"!???

[@Kyra98x]

Actually, the jellyfish profit from the way humans change the oceans; it results in higher food availabilities and less predators hunting them. Which is why there are now so many they are causing problems to humans...

[@VijetaTantry]

@@Kyra98x But still, we've no right to say that they cause us problems when we messed up the whole ecosystem in the first place.

[@apdroidgeek1737]

Nature is always in balance until we play god and control nature to our liking.

[@EnglishLad]

Hats off to the camera crew for all those beautiful yet terrifying closeups that were recorded in the making of this video purely for our education and enjoyment. Talk about suffering for your art!

[@sporetv57]

Jellyfish are the most alien thing ever

[@jazlynv9604]

Exactly

[@germanteriyaki9898]

How you ever wondered that we're aliens too, the animals consider humanity an alien

[@grinddaily2582]

Wait until you you see the other 300,000

[@fahimsiddique5437]

Amazingly beautiful sea creature. Looks like floating flower...

[@kingc680]

They may harm you with a sting but, dear lord...jellyfish sure are beautiful creatures.

[@ernarjandos1031]

“In extreme cases the bloom can be dense and there can be more jellyfish than the water” -whaduyu mean. I thought you said 95% of jellyfish is water

[@peanutjuice1748]

Shes saying they could occupy the area more than water.

[@nocontext9635]

@@peanutjuice1748 its a joke stoopid

[@skylarreynolds440]

That’s what I’m sayin😂😂😂

[@AzlianaLyana]

Had a small one stung me twice in a 1 minute span. Felt like a sudden surge of heat, like that burning feeling after being slapped, minus the actual slap impact.

[@WeegeePlayzStuff]

Perfectly describes the feeling! For me, it felt like the all of the sun was on my leg. I had just shoved my whole leg straight into a jelly.

[@silvatown7824]

Your lucky it wasn't the notorious Malo kingi the most dangerous jelly in the world small as a coin but you can get irukandji syndrome kills very fast

[@dh5254]

My sister got stung so me and my brothers had to pee on her leg....

[@raccoonchild]

@@dh5254 Congratulations, you are now a dog

[@professorfrond2234]

I for one welcome our new aquatic overlords

[@LaughingKarrot]

Remember when mr crabs was Harvesting there jelly😂

[@outfit7_bloons55]

Krabs: Time is money.

[@1998warriors]

“Destroying Chinese ships-“ Ah yes, karma at it’s finest.

[@BadGrief]

I don't think you know what karma means

[@Stickyybenzz]

@@BadGrief He knows lol

[@BadGrief]

@@Stickyybenzz I don't think you know either lol

[@Stickyybenzz]

@@BadGrief I do

[@BadGrief]

@@Stickyybenzzhow do you think karma works then, kid.

[@jenoreypagaduan914]

Thank you for this :) This is very informative. Just a minor detail: I noticed that the organism shown in 3:26 looks like a comb jelly (ctenophoran) and not a jelly fish (cnidarian)

[@bluemarble5225]

i was looking to see if anyone else had noticed, that animal is a ctenephoran, i found it interesting that nat geo would make such an error when any biologist would know the difference lol

[@eltio8288]

In spanish we call the jellyfish as "medusa" yeah just like that one killed by Perseus

[@WeegeePlayzStuff]

We should always be calling jellies "medusa." It's far more correct. Jellyfish is straight nonsense.

[@beta700a]

Same in Russia, It's "medusa".

[@adamgacso3343]

same in Hungary

[@Horny_Fruit_Flies]

Same in Poland

[@deantyoowon6439]

In french, it's "méduse". For both the animal and the mythologic creature.

[@hewerton_]

2:14 In Brazil we call them Living Water so it kinda makes sense

[@beatricer.1876]

I’ve been watching a lot of these videos and I mean they’re just amazing, they’re short but really high quality and they represent a wonderful starter for further researches!!

[@pufferfishdave1249]

I am scared of them but I am also very fascinated by them

[@ms.z980]

The 1st animal video that doesn't say "endangered animal" ❤😢

[@sateeshdm4877]

Who else thinks her voice is magical?

[@anuradhapotnuru9024]

Yeah they are mysterious but yet thanks National Geographic channel for this good about of information

[@mushroomme64]

This was low-key very interesting

[@paulafigueiredo1745]

Thanks for sharing this great educational video. I love it.

[@jenniferloving9054]

So graceful.

[@Oggar0912]

Great video, i love this series of 101!

[@muhammadzulqernain5877]

Me too.. I'm waiting for Tigers101

[@NatGeoWild]

We're glad you enjoy the 101 series, Estef! Hopefully you learned some interesting new facts about jellyfish.

[@duckduckwhosthere4344]

@@NatGeoWild can you do Tropical Birds 101

[@elektras6325]

Got stung by one of these yesterday- it hurt SO BADLY!!! I actually thought that I was bitten by a shark and was surprised to see I still had skin on my leg when I looked. Felt sharp intense pain and burning, like if sliced with a knife that was soaked in pepper sauce. My son was also stung on his foot at the same time, he thought maybe a ground shark bit his foot off!! It really does feel more like a huge bite from something like a shark rather than a sting. Location: Hilton Head beach, SC, USA. We were out thigh deep ie still in shallow water.

[@WINIFREDWU1103ok]

海哲来看海蜇啦 Jellyfish are so pretty. They are my favorite animal now.

[@Gutterrat69]

3:00 how can there be more jellyfish then water in some areas if a jellyfish is 95% water?

[@Unknown-bi7mf]

I wanted more information on jellyfish lives. How they live, biology, etc, but it was still an very engaging and nice video.

[@ninadelaflores]

My horoscope told me to watch a jellyfish video today.

[@nienkehuininkify]

Desstoni H. Omg me to and I do not understand it!!! 😂

[@ninadelaflores]

Nienke Huinink I didn’t either lol I was like “soooo am I a unique, weird creature? 🤣

[@j.m251]

Mine did today. Costar

[@chinafleming1418]

My costar told me the same thing. Lol

[@malloobasi1611]

Cancer? ♋️ lol

[@princessalissa9132]

Wow I didn't knew That about jellyfish I never Thinked About that!

[@dellaknee8121]

I like the jellies that are simply just jelly, the ones you can pick up in awww

[@jellyfishcorpseschannel01]

aww

[@paulstein4164]

What intrigues me the most is an archetypal, numinous, mythic, dreaming-body re-membering of a millions of years old soul-loving evolutionary link to Gaia "we" owe our lives to...Brilliant documentary...!!

[@MuhammadEgypt]

Blooms, swarms or smacks. Nice!

[@X_explorer]

Amazing channel!

[@Chase_baker_1996]

So beautiful, yet deadly

[@ZU6N]

3:25 He got a good gaming set-up, ngl

[@loveinspired7]

Fsscinating... now I want to know more!

[@englishtraining7863]

Thank you for your uploading. This video is very deep from scientific side!

[@atomix1876]

Spongebob would love this

[@sonikakaushal8964]

I am biology students studying in class 11th book my animal kingdom including jellyfish. Amazed by seeing this video to know more about jellyfish thanks for the beautiful video.

[@anikanamdeo8846]

Informative 👍🏻

[@_elenaio_]

Such fascinating creatures

[@andergarcia.]

hola

[@BanishedandBroken]

@@andergarcia. Adios.

[@sambrazel9802]

Anyone else watch this out of their own interest and not a a school project or something?

[@2fifty533]

yeah

[@gayathrir7771]

Wow beautiful amazing

[@abbaseducationalsociety]

Wow admirable great. I want to see jelly fish.

[@jessbullock2690]

Jellyfish are so fascinating!

[@paulsteinph.d.8869]

Brilliant..!!

[@seldmor]

Thank you for this useful video

[@annahorpen2046]

Co-star told me to watch a video of jellyfish, so here I am

[@rosemarythepomegranate]

Orange Juice same! im a leo sun aries moon aqua rising

[@duhmarr]

LMAOOO literally same 😭

[@normalpersonlol9109]

A fellow spirit: so how did you die? Me: I died because of a bloom of boxes, A fellow spirit: so boxes fell on your head? Or did it suffocate you Me: No I mean a smack of boxes! A fellow spirit: Ohhh you got smacked by boxes! Ok ☺ Me: 🤦‍♂️ you know what, I don't care

[@sharlamiller8197]

I got to pet a jellyfish it's so amazing

[@jellyfishcorpseschannel01]

right?!

[@Antimanium]

Great video and interesting animals.

[@jazzhands8183]

I love jellyfish They make me feel calm and happy

[@starysion]

I feel really calm and happy when I get stung by one, causing me to scream in agony while my foot gets swollen ☺

[@billy.2156]

all educating until spongebob and patricks with some nets come in

[@larrylongjr.5524]

Beautiful jellies!

[@madisonboire]

I’m only watching this because today my costar told me to watch a video of jellyfish

[@scaratarthemsmsitarbug8304]

JELLYFISH ON THE FLOOR JELLY FISH JELLY ON THE FLOOOR!!!-spongebob

[@ezaanplayzwithcolors]

Very informative

[@ryansfavoritesvandyke8005]

That immortal jellyfish is most concerning.

[@2fifty533]

they aren't even harmful

[@havitar3950]

The only informations I know about jellyfish from Spongebob

[@plus-rd8zg]

beautiful

[@hannahlee1740]

Co-star told me to watch a video of jellyfish so here I am.

[@ameliahau5927]

Great picture.

[@helenab9071]

*“They don’t have a heart”* Me, an intellectual: SEE?! THATS WHY THEY STING! *sobs dramatically* That was a joke, don’t freak out.

[@elektras6325]

Helena B 😂😂😂😂

[@afa4766]

Lol

[@GreenHeartGoddessIX]

So awesome.

[@KarollayneSilva-nn7to]

Amazing ❤

[@MihaTV]

Thank you for sharing video, it inspired me to learn english and decorate my bullet journal 👍👍👍

[@surbhitaneja655]

It's amazing creature on our planet.

[@yogiyudistira771]

One of most oldest living being on the world One of most simple creature on the earth One of most dangerous animal on the ocean

[@funwithjacob9530]

Jellyfish are so cool and they also my favorite

[@justanonymouse]

Bioluminescent sea jelly are amazing. Like little floating ocean lamps.

[@johnmendez6628]

Ganda ng jelly geography in the ocean

[@chxrrypwie]

thats sooo weird, the narrator, she sounds exactly like me

[@adnanhulk339]

Then u have a beautiful voice

[@purplejessieanimations3272]

A WILD FRILLISH APPERED

[@Anthonyvideogame]

@redloiyu654jay lucky all I found was tentacool

[@twoshiresdrama3827]

Very good video :)

[@bioplanettv8077]

3:30 I’m jealous, they have more friends than me 😂😂😂

[@Hatred_333]

Lol same xd

[@jessevrieling1939]

3:25 finally the rgb jellyfish!

[@Anthony-by7zd]

Spilt jellyfish into fish and jelly so it’s safe to eat😀

[@gothmedli]

i start to shiver and i get younger

[@zabugd2379]

Every time I see a jelly fish my head feels like it’s floating

[@jonn_mace_80_95_]

The one animal that best personifies my character.

[@jamesrideout123]

Very interesting.

[@brockbracken318]

Fun fact: Jellyfish don’t actually make jelly.

[@outfit7_bloons55]

Spongebob should namesake its every jellyfish.

[@lawjef]

Ah, my arch nemesis, i see you PR department has got you some good publicity on Nat Geo. You win this round, JF. You win this round.

[@jinksimpretty05]

Wow I Think Jellyfish And Seahorses And Mermaid 🧜🏾‍♀️ Are My Favorite Honestly lol

[@daysofwineandroses1723]

I Love sea jellies ☆ My friend's call me ChellyJelly bcs I absolutely luv them OwO.

[@azizihassan4958]

WOW that's awesome

[@RosieNyan]

They are one of the most beautiful creatures of the sea “ Till you get stung by one …

[@user-uh9ed3os6g]

Amazing

[@maisymei]

they’re so cool