Because box jellyfish are so distantly related to ... When the stripes were a stark black and white, representing optimum water clarity, box jellies never got close to the bucket walls.

So scientists put the jellyfish in tanks that were painted with three different levels of contrast: high-contrast black-and-white vertical stripes that represented nearby tree roots; medium ...

This jellyfish might look peaceful ... the 1870s and uses light sensitive iron salts to create these striking black and white images.

Box jellyfish are about the size of a grape ... In one scenario, the stripes were high-contrast black and white, which the scientists intended to mimic mangrove roots in clear water.

“By contrast our study found jellyfish are a common prey of black-browed albatrosses and the closely related Campbell albatross. “While there was a large variation between breeding ...