Jellyfish food-finding strategy found to be more complex than thought
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 - 08:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Predictive biologist Andrew Reynolds, with Rothamsted Research in the U.K. has found that barrel jellyfish (which live off the coast of U.K.) have developed a food-finding strategy that is far more sophisticated than scientists have thought. Indeed, as Reynolds explains in his paper published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface, its search techniques can be compared to the fast simulated annealing used by supercomputers to very quickly find solutions to unique problems.