Can a Jellyfish Have a “City of Gonads”?

As you know, Ultra-Gross has never had a story about gonads before. Today, we break that policy to share with you this, the coolest headline ever:

It’s from this National Geographic article about a newly discovered jellyfish that has its gonads on the OUTSIDES of its body. Upon close inspection of the jellyfish, a scientist said these gonads look like “skyscrapers in a downtown business district.” 

Imagine the conversation when that scientist got home!

“What did you do at work today?”

“I closely inspected a jellyfish’s gonads.”

“What did THOSE look like?”

“Skyscrapers.”

Lisa-Ann Gershwin also gave this new jellfish the finest name ever given to a jellyfish with external gonads: MEDEOPOLIS, which is Latin for “city of gonads.”