A small number of peach blossom jellyfish was spotted in a community pond in Chengdu, the capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province. 

There are eleven kinds of peach blossom jellyfish found so far in the world. The ones appearing in the Chengdu pond need to be identified using molecule sequencing technologies. And further investigation is also needed to determine why they show up in the small pond.

The peach blossom jellyfish was first spotted and recorded over 400 years ago during ancient China's Ming Dynasty. They were often seen in the peach blossom season and looked like floating petals in the water, hence so named by ancient Chinese.

(Cover image by Zhangzhi, Hongxing News. /VCG)

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