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When you have no bones, the water is a wonderful place to call home. All sorts of flubbery, rubbery creatures that would be nothing

but squishy puddles on land move gracefully in the sea. The water lets them float and supports their weight.

Jellyfish are wobbly, see-through animals that hardly look like animals at all. They come in shades of pink and blue and look like something you might find in a candy store. Jellyfish have circular bodies, called bells, and trailing tentacles that can sting. The most dangerous is the box jellyfish, nicknamed the “sea wasp.” It has about 60 tentacles with enough poison to kill a person.

7 A jellyfish drifts along with its tentacles trailing. The camera flash has made the jellyfish look pink, but really its body is blue.

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