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How Some Jellyfish Are Born

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At a marine biology station, a clump of algae reveals polyps, stomachs with limbs, limbs with buds, buds with poison cells. This animal reproduces by buds, which we watch close up in time-lapse images. In another kind of jellyfish, the…

DirectorsJean Painlevé·Geneviève Hamon

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