Warm weather brings freshwater jellyfish to Shropshire canal

First UK sighting of tiny jellyfish species normally found in the Yangtze basin in ChinaFirst came the wasps, exotic sharks and marauding seagulls. Now the long hot summer has revealed another initially alarm-inducing animal in British waters - or more precisely, in the Middlewich branch of the Shropshire Union Canal.Freshwater jellyfish more normally found in the Yangtze basin in China have been spotted swimming in the waters near Bridge 23 of the canal between Middlewich and Winsford, according to the Canal & River Trust. Continue reading...