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Pella Christian Middle School Theatre in Pella, Iowa is presenting a production of The Black Pearl, with local radio station KNIA-KRLS reporting the announcement. The school's theatre program is staging the play for the community, and the item is drawing attention as a local school event in the region.

The mauve stinger jellyfish (Pelagia noctiluca) produces its own light through bioluminescence, glowing in the ocean's twilight zone where sunlight barely reaches. The faint glow startles would-be predators and attracts the plankton the jellyfish feeds on, letting it hunt and defend itself without any need for sunlight.