Caught on film: Predatory coral eats jellyfish!

A coral is recorded eating a jellyfish for the first time, in intriguing photographs taken by scientists.
Coral usually feed on tiny plankton as well as products provided by photosynthetic algae.
Yet the photos reveal a stationary mushroom coral sucking in a large moon jellyfish.
Researchers believe the ability to feed on a variety of food sources like jellyfish may give the coral an advantage in a changing world.
The researchers publish their findings in the journal Coral Reefs.



BBC - Earth News - Predatory coral eats jellyfish

 

Too cool.

 

cool article thank matt

 

wow that pretty cool

 

very interesting, thanks for sharing

 

very cool matt. another informative and eye opening article. ty

 

mushroom?..... kinda looks like a fungia to me

 

Very cool. With the influx in jelly fish in the worlds oceans maybe this will be a good thing

 

That's why I hate common names and prefer scientific names. That is a fungia.