When you’re a baby fish in a big ocean, you need protection from the many mouths waiting to snap you up. And what better than a jellyfish?
Stewart Whitfield shot these tiny fish hiding under a stinging jellyfish’s bowl-like body, where its stinging threads keep predators away.
The fish will use this safe house until they’re big enough to make it on their own.
Originally published by Cosmos as Baby fish live in a jellyfish bodyguard
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