Jellyfish and Eagle Rays: Neighbours at Our Beach

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. There is an animal drifting past our beach with no brain, no heart, no bones and no blood — and it has been on this planet since long before the first dinosaur. This one is a special request from Nate and Emma's beach friends Wick and his sister Scottie. Join Miss Cam, Nate, and Emma for a shallow-water adventure with two of the strangest neighbours in the Gulf: the jellyfish and the spotted eagle ray. Curious kids will find out why a jellyfish is ninety-five percent water and isn't a fish at all, how its sting is really thousands of microscopic harpoons that fire all by themselves, why a jellyfish washed up on the sand can still sting you, and why the old playground advice about peeing on a sting is completely, gloriously wrong. Then meet the eagle ray — a ray with a ten-foot wingspan that flaps like a bird, cracks clams like a nutcracker, wears a pattern of white spots as unique as your fingerprint, and leaps clean out of the sea for a reason scientists still cannot explain. Turn your imaginations ON!