A brown paper nautilus rides atop a jellyfish in Balayan Bay, Luzon, the Philippines. The nautilus uses its jellyfish host as both a food source, and as a convenient and threatening vehicle.

For a jellyfish, there are few hitchhikers more harmful than this juvenile brown paper nautilus, and for the nautilus, few rides could be more handy.

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