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Why Don't Jellyfish Have Brains?: 150 Fun Facts and Questions About the Ocean's Strangest Animal for Curious Kids Ages 6-12

Why Don't Jellyfish Have Brains?: 150 Fun Facts and Questions About the Ocean's Strangest Animal for Curious Kids Ages 6-12

Fairbank, Douglas

Paperback

Series: Curious Kids Animal Files

AnimalsScience & Nature

ISBN13: 9798190883800
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 5 2026
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.34 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Does a jellyfish have a brain? A heart? Any bones at all? And how can something that is almost entirely water hunt, sting, and survive for 500 million years?

Jellyfish were drifting through the oceans before dinosaurs walked, before trees grew and before the first shark appeared. They have no brain, no bones, no heart and no blood - and kids have a lot of questions about them.

This book answers 150 of them. Every question gets its own big illustrated page, written so a six-year-old can follow along and a twelve-year-old won't find it babyish. There is no need to start at the beginning - flip to whichever question looks best.

Inside, young readers find out:

  • How a sting actually works, and why a jellyfish never aims at anybody
  • Why one washed up on the sand can still sting days later
  • What to do if you get stung - and why the old playground myth is simply wrong
  • How a lion's mane grows tentacles as long as a blue whale
  • Which jellyfish has twenty-four eyes
  • How one kind can turn back into a baby instead of dying of old age
  • Why jellyfish have been flown into space

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