Deep relaxation: The relaxing rhythm of jellies will help you unwind

Sit back and relax with these soothing jellies. From tiny, delicate drifters, to giant deep-sea denizens, jellies come in a variety of beautiful and mesmerizing forms. There are many different kinds of gelatinous animals in the deep, but here we are featuring the umbrella-shaped animals that swim by pulsing a bell and usually have tentacles trailing behind their mellow flowing movement.
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Most people underestimate the true diversity of this dazzling group of animals. Taxonomically, they are far more varied than a handful of the most common examples used to represent “jellyfish”. See below for a full list of each jelly’s scientific name, observations depth, and location.
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Editor: Kyra Schlining
Music: Sleeping and Floating (Motion Array Original)
Animals in order of appearance:
00:00 Stygiomedusa gigantea (giant phantom jelly) | depth 1,083 meters (3,553 feet), Monterey Bay
00:25 Solmissus sp. (dinner plate jelly) | depth 440 meters (1,443 feet), Monterey Bay
00:48 Tiburonia granrojo (big red jelly) | depth 1,083 meters (3,553 feet), Monterey Bay
01:12 Halitrephes maasi (fireworks jelly) | depth 946 meters (3,104 feet), Monterey Bay
01:36 Aeginura sp. (raspberry jelly) | depth 729 meters (2,392 feet), Davidson Seamount
01:59 Poralia sp. (red disk jelly) | depth 1,577 meters (5,174 feet), Southern California
02:15 Solmissus sp. (dinner plate jelly) | depth 804 meters (2,638 feet), greater Monterey Bay area
02:35 Stellamedusa ventana (bumpy jelly) | depth 171 meters (561 feet), Monterey Bay
02:56 Poralia sp. (red disk jelly) | depth 1,235 meters (4,051 feet), Gulf of California
03:33 Aegina citrea (lemon jelly) | depth 948 meters (3,111 feet), off the coast of Big Sur
03:56 Atolla sp. (red crown jelly) | depth 480 meters (1,575 feet), Monterey Bay
04:18 Colobonema sericeum (silky jelly) | depth 508 meters (1,667 feet), greater Monterey Bay area
04:32 Chrysaora fuscescens (sea nettle) | depth 39 meters (128 feet), Monterey Bay
04:59 Colobonema sericeum (silky jelly) | depth 361 meters (1,184 feet), Monterey Bay
05:13 Periphylla periphylla (helmet jelly) | depth 567 meters (1,861 feet), Astoria Canyon, Pacific Northwest
05:29 Solmissus sp. (dinner plate jelly) | depth 588 meters (1,928 feet), Monterey Bay
05:52 Botrynema brucei (lampshade jelly) | depth 2,187 meters (7.174 feet), Monterey Bay
06:06 Aurelia labiata (moon jelly) | depth 14 meters (45 feet), Monterey Bay
06:34 Aegina sp. (golf tee jelly) | depth 1,222 meters (4,009 feet), Monterey Bay
06:53 Chrysaora fuscescens (sea nettle) | depth 23 meters (77 feet) deep, Monterey Bay
07:12 Stellamedusa ventana (bumpy jelly) | depth 480 meters (1,576 feet), Monterey Bay
07:41 Periphylla periphylla (helmet jelly) | depth 773 meters (2,537 feet), Monterey Bay
08:04 Tiburonia granrojo (big red jelly) | depth 1,368 meters (4,491 feet), Monterey Bay
08:23 Aegina sp. (golf tee jelly) | depth 880 meters (2,886 feet), Monterey Bay
08:36 Vampyrocrossota childressi (black jelly) | depth 1,483 meters (4,867 feet), Channel Islands, Southern California
08:48 Halicreas sp. (warty jelly) | depth 1,599 meters (5,243 feet), off the coast of Big Sur
09:09 Atolla sp. (red crown jelly) | depth 531 meters (1,743 feet), Monterey Bay
09:29 Stygiomedusa gigantea (giant phantom jelly) | depth 1,682 meters (5,519 feet), offshore of Monterey Bay
09:59 Benthocodon pedunculata (little red jelly) | depth 440 meters (1,444 feet), Monterey Bay
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[@2butnot277]

I'm humbled. Thank you for sharing.

[@Prince7G]

This is Mesmerizing. I wish the video was longer

[@chinookvalley]

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Awesome.

[@paillette2010]

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 these videos are so wonderful

[@susangenin11]

Breathtakingly beautiful. It was Very relaxing. Thank you for sharing this video.

[@gisellebryan6457]

Amazing video of the Lord's amazing undersea beauties and that heavenly background music omg.hoope one day youll do a video on bioluminescent undersea creatures with soothing music 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹

[@amouraearising2148]

this video is a hit! so many jellies i've never seen before! so alien, yet so calming. thank you for the work you are doing mbari...

[@yvonnehaddrell6410]

Wowsey you can say that again if you saw this and did not know you think you was on a alien planet.

[@u3210]

Loved the video, the deep-sea is as amazing to me as the deep-space.
Wonderful creatures, thank you for sharing this with us!

[@nonime9566]

Watching this at 4am is an experience

[@ruhsexperimentsgliesperimentid]

Mother Nature has a lot of funny, nut ideas about how to create jellyfish! Thank you, wonderful video!

[@dobbythefreeelf9638]

This is one institute which deserves the funding they are given...every single dime every single penny

[@fazan.art.]

Amazing depth of music and image!!!🏵🏵🏵

[@McPilch]

These majestic lifeforms are proof that consciousness lies outside "the brain"...

[@hooblajoobla9422]

We know more about the moon that what we are seeing here, amazing!! Don't recognise any of these jellies 🤩

[@iaindavis4417]

Mesmerising

[@joanjacques]

So Beautiful🌿

[@boundsgreenboy8354]

Stunning.👌👍😁

[@aaryaputra108]

Amazing and so very beautiful

[@user-tm1ec2on6w]

They all look pretty chilled out.

[@emilia66mya]

The amount of weird, but wonderful you can find deep underwater. Great work your doing. Keep it up.

[@SunsetGreat]

I love how jellyfish Move so relaxing

[@gecko36a]

What a beautiful video.👍😊🇬🇧

[@snaileri]

Absolutely stunning

[@dingwang8407]

never watch enough of this

[@grif7661]

непостижимо и прекрасно творение Божие.🙃

[@yvonnehaddrell6410]

Amazing sending Tomy daughter to help her relax also. Sweet. Thanks very calming.

[@yvonnehaddrell6410]

Amen and thanks again

[@maja9689]

lovely!! 💐

[@itz_sixteen]

This is so beautiful I'm about to cry rn 😭

[@wamatt2538]

Amazing!

[@StinkerTheFirst]

Wow, this is good stuff. I feel totally relaxed and chill right now.
I had no idea that jelly fish could look so different from each other. It's amazing.

[@k4000]

cool animals!

[@connieembury1]

Beautiful and very relaxing. I love the names of the different Jellies.

[@seavoyeur]

Stunning!!!

[@eirosp.r.868]

Made me smile

[@Prince7G]

This is Mesmerizing. I wish it didn't end

[@kdochce-vidi8540]

... Thank You. 👍🇨🇿

[@devolverg6091]

thanks for making this

[@cynthiahawkins2389]

Oh, my what a tranquil view of these 'Zen' creatures...

[@yuricrawford7846]

Fascinante!

[@a.mie.533]

What genious little wonders of design those creatures are - I'm completely taken by these unbelievably gorgeous pictures !!!

[@bobby6849]

Ngl this is quite soothing

[@4teslastorm295]

so beautiful and adorable 😦

[@MrTxTx]

Heart rate hit 47 according to my Apple Watch. Love this.

[@chinookvalley]

Mine seemed to sequence with the jellies movement.

[@JJMarkin]

Thank you so much for adding the identifications to this lovely (and soothing) video!

[@intheabyss]

So gorgeous

[@pgwinegar]

Absolutely calming and inspiring and magnificent!

[@imrichdo]

Beautiful

[@AllieThePrettyGator]

I thought Pacific Sea Nettles never travel alone

[@MariuszTyburski]

Great video. Well done.

[@straygameplaywalkthroughps6480]

Cool, they look like mobile mushrooms :-)

[@leyjack4970]

The lighting is surreal.

[@Apolemia]

Jellyfish are the sea mushrooms !!

[@franciscadasilva2984]

🙌❤

[@Prince7G]

Thank you ❤️
I feel nice and relaxing

[@hibernative]

These all look like experimental designs towards a final product.
In a sense, I guess that's exactly what they are...

[@unReal85Again]

All your videos are beautiful and this one is no exception.

[@Azmara-Huq]

Nice MBARI

[@TheSpiralAim]

Why do I keep clicking on these xD I have a true phobia of these friggen things.

[@luizalberto-vy5rb]

Increíble

[@johnfree2833]

Great material for my next DMT exploration.dont do drugs.

[@hazel-nut]

Beautiful!!! And relaxing 😊😍
Thank you for this wonderful video!!!

[@sagarmehta5895]

Amazing so beautiful..❤☺
Thanks for sharing..!!

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#MBARI

[@brickhead1131]

These absolutely rock!
Although the common name for Poralia is a bit unwieldy I think. I propose we call it a tongue jelly

[@101mylo]

I often wonder if creatures such as jellyfish are ever bored or even know what the concept of boredom is ,as beautiful as they are they just seem so well you know bored

[@BrooklynHoncho]

Please tell me what words you can use to describe such magnificence.

[@misterblueskyyy]

Transcendental. Ethereal. Nebulous. Numinous.

[@karambaahma]

Это самые настоящие пришельцы

[@boocook23]

yep, that works...

[@mr.mistersquidspongesquare9652]

how are there so many different types of jellyfish 🤔
it feels like jellyfish don’t do enough to warrant so many different ways of evolving

[@ladislavjanecek4390]

Honestly I did subscribe some time ago and CAN'T tell if your videos are made infront green screen or not .it's just so stunning and spectacular

[@MBARIvideo]

Thanks! All of this video was recorded directly from the deep sea with our remotely operated vehicles (ROVs)!

[@leyjack4970]

@@MBARIvideo Impressive lighting!

[@evaldo6017]

uou so lindeza

[@w.o.4703]

The names on some of these are just wild.... U rly gonna look at these incredible and alien creatures and say yeah that looks uhhhh bumpy. The lampshade one was accurate tho

[@grantruth2963]

We need an hour version

[@tymonpufelski8310]

please do 10h version

[@AlyxGlide]

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[@vexilligerave9356]

isn't that aurelia labiata at 6:10

[@MBARIvideo]

Thanks for your astute observation. We've updated the description. We hope you enjoyed 10-minutes with all of these jellies!

[@ambientesol]

I have the cd for this

[@ZadakLeader]

My only question is, how do they reproduce with others of its kind? The ocean is so huge, how do you find 2 of the same jellyfish to make new ones?

[@ilikeclayapples1759]

They usually are able to find each other but a lot of species can actually reproduce asexually so it’s not a problem if they’re not able to find another of their kind.

[@yuridavila6095]

Jelly fish aren't one organism but a colony.
You basically asked how do bee hives reproduce?

[@ZadakLeader]

@@yuridavila6095 You're a jellyfish

[@SomeBizarretaSomeBizzareLabel0]

[@chimin1407]

WHY DOES IT WORK

[@TheGrayton2000]

Are you a girl

[@mjj69]

They all look cgi

[@murrayscott3513]

Beautiful