On Jellyfish Skin

Letter
August 17th

The crew made it to an area so pink I neigh thought it made of flesh. Absolutely littered were these luminescent semi-transparent jellyfish which appeared to weigh next to nothing. Their movements seemed less musculature-driven than their long-distant fish cousins. A specimen managed to be pulled onboard, where I observed firsthand that its skin was every bit as rigid and rubbery as that of a hammerhead shark! They appear nothing like the fleshy cartilaginous fish above and yet share few of the properties with their own kind! Perhaps this form is some kind of convergence? Or perhaps we have found an older, tougher ancestor to Aequorea victoria. -C. Erasmus Dourwind