Andrew Paul is Popular Science's staff writer covering tech news. Previously, he was a regular contributor to The A.V. Club and Input, and has had recent work featured by Rolling Stone, Fangoria, GQ, Slate, NBC, as well as McSweeney's Internet Tendency. He lives outside Indianapolis.
ArticleBody:Although originally from Yangtze, China, the peach blossom jellyfish can now be found on every continent in the world except for Antarctica. Researchers in one country, however, are documenting Craspedacusta sowerbii’s ongoing spread further north than ever before—but unlike most other invasive species, these newcomers are nearly identical genetic 'clones.
Credit: Florian Lüskow Peach blossom jellyfish generally spawn in large numbers only in water temperatures at least 70 degrees Fahrenheit. But as Lüskow’s collaborator Evgeny Pakhomov, a professor in UBC’s Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and EOAS department, explains, this may not always be the case. “Polyps are very small… and it is challenging to locate them. They inhabit shallow areas and can be found on rocks and submerged wood debris,” he said on Tuesday.
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