New research shows that, when the watery nature of their bodies is taken into account, jellyfish are as efficient as predators as fish
Graeme Hays, a professor of marine biology at Swansea University in Wales is mentioned in an article in Live saying that It has been predicted that as fishing removes the top predators and subsequently moves down the food chain in oceans, the seas eventually will be dominated by jellyfish. Link http://www.livescience.com/16077-jellyfish-flourish-surprisingly-effective-predators.
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- Wednesday 21 March 2012 00.00 GMT
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