🪼 Venice Is Being Invaded By Cannibalistic Jellyfish With Vanishing Anus

The bizarre creature has a temporary anus that appears only when it needs to expel waste, then vanishes again.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to the Jonesy and Demanda podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
I've got this story today about something that's happening in
the waters of Venice. Venice is facing an extraordinary invasion
of a bizarre, cannibalistic jellyfish. It's threatening fish stocks, wrecking
havoc on the city's fragile lagoon ecosystem. What happens if
you have some sort of predator like this is time jellyfish,
They go into the ballast of ships. I used to
do some stories on this with beyond two thousand dino flagelets,

(00:25):
if you don't mind me showing on right, are scooped
up in the bottom of the ballast water and then
just taken all over the place. That's how they spread.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
But I had the same with cruise ships as well.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
All the diseases and germs that spread.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
The barnicles and I see yah, Yeah, there was a
time when the fair starry coming into Hub and the
VD clinics be rubbing their hands together. We've got some
business coming to holiday house.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Well.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
This jellyfish is interesting for another reason too, because of
its quote unsettling byology.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
This is a jellyfish whose.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Anus only appears temporarily it's got it like a temporary aenus.
It appears during defecation and vanishes again. It's also known
to eat its own offspring. So interesting, isn't it. I
don't know if we're going to be seeing that in
finding Nemo. Imagine that Nemo and his temporary anus I

(01:26):
can't find it.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Instead of finding Nemo, find Nemo's anus.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
I'm going to Stott, but only temporarily.