While swimming near the island of Gozo, off Malta, I came upon thousands of jellyfish in the shallows. Among them was this astounding life form. Is it a deep-sea creature, a kind of jellyfish or a congenital abnormality?
Ian Dingwall, Solothurn, Switzerland
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