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Do box jellyfish live in the cold?

Updated: 10/6/2023
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Because jellies do not have blood, or a circulatory system, they can not be considered "cold-blooded." However, they are ectotherms whose body temperatures are equal to the temperature of the environment.

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Although the notoriously dangerous species of box jellyfish are largely restricted to the tropical Indo-Pacific, various species of box jellyfish can be found widely in tropical and subtropical oceans, including the Atlantic and east Pacific, with species as far north as California, the Mediterranean and Japan and as far south as South Africa and New Zealand.

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Jellyfishes live both in warm and in very cold waters.

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It really depends on what type of jellyfish it is. Some like the surface, like Portugeuse Man-Of-War, and others like it deep

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