All the Pretty Jellyfish

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While in the tiny Western Pacific island nation of Palau, WHOI researcher Pat Lohmann visited one of Palau's natural wonders, Ongeim’l Tketau, also known as Jellyfish Lake. There he trained his high-definition video camera on the thousands of jellyfish undulating around him.<br /><br />The landlocked saltwater lake is home to millions of globular jellyfish ranging from minuscule to basketball-size. Every day, like clockwork, they all swim in a mass back and forth across the quarter-mile-long lake. Tourists don snorkels and swim among the pulsing blobs. The lake's jellyfish are mostly <i>Mastigias</i> whose ancestors came into the lake from the nearby ocean.