Jellyfish have been on Earth longer than we have -- they are believed to have roamed the oceans for nearly 600 million years. But human activity, from over-fishing to plastic waste and climate change, has created an environment in which they are even more at home. The proliferation of the jellyfish could lead to what some observers are calling the "jellyfication" of the oceans, which are facing profound changes according to a draft UN report due out on Wednesday. Fabien Lombard, a French marine biologist at the Sorbonne University specializing in the ecology of plankton and jellyfish, would not go that far. "There are more jellyfish in certain zones in the world...
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