9th and 10th fact. 12 Terrifying Facts About Jellyfish.

9th and 10th fact

Jellyfish can be male, female or hermaphrodites, and some can reproduce all on their own. One type, Mnemiopsis, starts layings eggs at the tender age of 13 days and can soon lay more than 10,000 a day.

Jellyfish “can eat anything, and often do,” Gershwin notes. They can eat a lot (ten times their body weight in food), too, and are even by nourished just by absorbing “dissolved organic matter through their epidermis.”