Jellyfish babies, named for their physical likeness to jellyfish, are human babies born with no eyes, head, or bones in their bodies and have translucent skin.

They are one of a myriad of after effects stemming from US hydrogen bomb testing in the Marshall Islands.

Although the bombing took place in March of 1954, Marshallese women to this day are still giving birth to jellyfish babies.

^[1] In 2012 Mrs. Lemeyo Abon, a retired teacher and "Marshallese elder", testified before the UN council:

Sometimes they [jellyfish babies] are born alive and live for a few minutes or hours, and you can see the blood moving through their bodies before they die.

We give birth to babies with missing limbs, or their organs and spinal cords on the outside of their bodies.

We never experienced these types of births before the U.S. testing program.

We have complained about these births for decades and we are always told by the U.S.

Government that they are not the result of radiation exposure.

Yet, our language, our history, our stories have no record of these births before the testing program.

After the testing program we've had to create new words to describe the creatures we give birth to.

Jellyfish babies are usually buried underground a few hours after being born - those that do survive have little to no resources to support their development.