New Jellyfish Discovered

A new jellyfish, which is unique because it can survive the dry season, has been discovered off Australia. The bart jellyfish is found only at the Gove Peninsular "in the Top End." (The Top End is the second northernmost point on the continent of Australia, behind the Cape York Peninsula. It covers a rather vaguely-defined area of perhaps 400,000 square kilometres bounded by sea on three sides, the Indian Ocean on the west, the Arafura Sea to the north, and the Gulf of Carpentaria to the east, and by the almost waterless semi-arid interior of Australia to the south.)

The jellyfish’s name is in recognition of Dr. Bart Currie from the Menzies Research Institute "for his almost 20 years of researching the animal" (i.e. jellyfish, in general) in the Northern Territory.

Dr. Currie noted that "Jellyfish are animals which are … incredibly interesting. They have eyes, well at least these box jellyfish do. They can swim in a very purposeful direction, and they just really have so much to teach us."

Like many "new" species announced as discoveries of late, this jellyfish has had articles written on it by Bart Currie as far back, perhaps, as 2002. But it appears it was just announced on January 12th, in Australia, to have been named in Bart Currie’s honor.

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Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

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