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While jellyfish have hardly changed over the past 300 million years, the same cannot be said about the future. After a gamma ray burst 298 million years in the future, jellyfish populations have exploded in the absence of predators.

On the left, a photosynthetic jellyfish hovers in the oxygen-starved water column, already capable of producing and storing enough oxygen as a byproduct of their symbiotic algae.

On the right, a neotonous species of jellyfish flaps its oar-like fins, blindly hunting for morsels of food in the water column. It is really a stack of individual jellyfish, which never detach after their larval stage.

The seabed is plastered with dark cyanobacteria, choking out any benthic organisms.

Description
While jellyfish have hardly changed over the past 300 million years, the same cannot be said about the future. After a gamma ray burst 298 million years in the future, jellyfish populations have exploded in the absence of predators.

On the left, a photosynthetic jellyfish hovers in the oxygen-starved water column, already capable of producing and storing enough oxygen as a byproduct of their symbiotic algae.

On the right, a neotonous species of jellyfish flaps its oar-like fins, blindly hunting for morsels of food in the water column. It is really a stack of individual jellyfish, which never detach after their larval stage.

The seabed is plastered with dark cyanobacteria, choking out any benthic organisms.