Field guide No. 680

Under a frozen sea a large pale jellyfish drifts with its tentacles trailing, and the ice above it has stretched up into a dome to fit its bell. The ice looks as if it minded.

Jellyfish beneath a stretched ice dome

Needed the headroom.

Under a frozen sea a large pale jellyfish drifts with its tentacles trailing, and the ice above it has stretched up into a dome to fit its bell. The ice looks as if it minded.

Field noteSea ice cracks when pushed. Over this jellyfish it has stretched like cling film and held.

Specimen
No. 680
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
Under the ice of a frozen sea.
Nearest existing relative
A lion’s mane jellyfish.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking physics