{"id":1786,"date":"2026-05-21T20:53:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2026-05-30T20:57:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T20:57:54","slug":"%f0%9f%aa%bc-gobsmacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/?p=1786","title":{"rendered":"\ud83e\udebc Gobsmacked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F_BK_CWZ6zg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do you refer to a group of jellyfish? Swarm, bloom, fluther, brood, and smuth are all options, but our favorite term? Read on to find out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Monday morning, Senior Research Scientist <strong>Rachel Sipler<\/strong> was on our dock in East Boothbay when she noticed something in the water: a smack of jellyfish zipping through the Damariscotta River! This included many moon jellies along with several other types. Rachel also spotted a comb jelly, visible in iridescent blue in the second clip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to Rachel for snapping this neat moment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you refer to a group of jellyfish? Swarm, bloom, fluther, brood, and smuth are all options, but our favorite term? Read on to find out! On Monday morning, Senior Research Scientist Rachel Sipler was on our dock in East Boothbay when she noticed something in the water: a smack of jellyfish zipping through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","css_class_manager_body_classes":"","css_class_manager_use_in_post_loop":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[18,93],"class_list":["post-1786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-laboratory","tag-maine","tag-rachel-sipler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions\/1788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}