© newsteam / Sea Watch FoundationThe bottlenose dolphins, which were off the Welsh coastline at the time, were caught on video for the first time playing jellyfish football.
Scientists working off the Welsh coastline have made an astonishing discovery -
dolphins playing football using jellyfish as a ball.
A team of marine biologists working in Cardigan Bay were amazed to see dolphins swim under a jellyfish and, with a sudden flick of their tails, shoot it out of the water.
The wild bottlenose dolphins were caught on video at Tremadog Bay for the first time playing "jellyfish football".
And - in an impressive aquatic bid to bend it like Beckham - one dolphin is seen flipping the barrel jellyfish as high as six feet into the air.
Experts believe the game goes back hundreds of thousands of years and that it may go some way towards explaining why dolphins in captivity are so skillful with balls at sea life parks across the world.