California Sea Gooseberry

This species of comb jelly or ctenophore has tiny hairlike structures called cilia that run down its sides. When light refracts on their cilia, it can resemble strings of glowing lights. Comb jellies are believed to be among the earliest animals on Earth. They are not true jellies and are instead planktonic animals, which feed on other planktonic animals such as copepods and other plankton. The California sea gooseberry has an oval-shaped gelatinous body that can reach up to an inch in length and is translucent.