2013 02-14 Valentine's Day at Zuma
Read MoreA cluster of individual comb jellies or "sea gooseberries," Pleurobrachia bachei taken from the plankton net and found washed up along the edge of the water. These gelatinous animals are members of a group known as Ctenophores (meaning "to bear combs") and are distinguished from other jellies by their 8 rows or bands of ciliary plates (called combs by early observers). These animals cannot sting, have no stinging cells, and feed using two long sticky tentacles that grab other planktonic animals.