A Fireproof Life

Here is some interesting stuff:

Recently, the 2008 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien for their discovery and investigation of the green fluorescent protein. This caught my attention. As i read further, i discovered that this protein, GFP, can be found in a specific jellyfish, Aequorea victoria. This lil jelly fish is amazing, and surprisingly quite beautiful...

They can produce flashes of blue light by releasing Ca2+. Then since this jellyfish has this GFP inside it, it fluoresces green as a result of exposure to blue light. Coloured lights display =] Its a cute lil creature which is a bioluminescent jellyfish, an awesome classification hehe.