US EditionA Tourist Just Found a Jellyfish That Was ‘Extinct’ for 50 Years
SOUTH UIST, OUTER HEBRIDES, SCOTLAND, AUG 3 – Scientists confirmed Depastrum cyathiforme's survival after being unseen for nearly 50 years, thanks to a tourist's discovery of four individuals under a rock, experts said.
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A Tourist Just Found a Jellyfish That Was ‘Extinct’ for 50 Years
Depastrum cyathiforme hadn’t been seen alive since 1976. For nearly 50 years, scientists assumed the stalked jellyfish—barely two inches tall and shaped like a translucent thistle—was gone for good. Then a tourist on South Uist in the Outer Hebrides flipped a rock and spotted four of them stuck to the underside. Neil Roberts wasn’t on a research expedition. He was just rock-pooling. But what he found matched only a handful of 19th-century drawin…
For almost half a century, there was no living evidence that Depastrum cyathiforme still inhabited the European coasts. Considered extinct since the 1970s, this tiny pedunculate jellyfish seemed to have slipped out of the field of naturalists. Yet, on a remote beach in Scotland, a simple stone reversal was enough to bring out from the past a creature that was thought to have been permanently lost. The mystery of a long-lost animal When it appear…
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