Jellyfish sting timed at 700ns

Jellyfish Sting

The sting of a jellyfish has been shown to be one of the fastest processes in the whole of biology. Using a super-fast camera technique German researchers have found it can fire off in just 700 nanoseconds.

Via The Register

Posted by Staff on 10 May 2006

                                         

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