Here is a prize-winning photograph by Kevin Raskoff of Monterey Peninsula College, from the December 21 issue of Nature -- a siphonophore, a kind of colonial jellyfish, like a Portuguese man-'o-war, about 30 centimeters long, from under Arctic ice. Those bulbs are propulsive "swimming bells." The flamelike tangle at the bottom are tentacles and reproductive organs. You can click to enlarge.A photograph like this requires no comment. My only response is to say with Ursula Goodenough: Hosannah! Not in the highest, but right here, right now, this.
