Geobiology Content / Geobiology Content for ٺƵ en First Jellyfish Genome Reveals Ancient Beginnings of Complex Body Plan /curiosity/news/first-jellyfish-genome-reveals-ancient-beginnings-complex-body-plan-0 <p>Jellyfish undergo an amazing metamorphosis, from tiny polyps growing on the seafloor to swimming medusae with stinging tentacles. This shape-shifting has served them well, shepherding jellyfish through more than 500 million years of mass extinctions on Earth.</p> <p>“Whatever they’re doing has really worked for them,” said&nbsp;<a href="https://geology.ucdavis.edu/people/faculty/gold">David Gold</a>, an assistant professor of paleobiology in the&nbsp;University of California,&nbsp;Davis,&nbsp;<a href="https://lettersandscience.ucdavis.edu/">College of Letters and Science</a>.</p> December 03, 2018 - 11:31am Andy Fell /curiosity/news/first-jellyfish-genome-reveals-ancient-beginnings-complex-body-plan-0