Jellyfish
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1. You can't leave out "numerous" (I assume you meant to say "leave out", rather than "leave".) You could use "plentiful" instead.
2. You could put "the Earth", but it's not necessary.
2. You could put "the Earth", but it's not necessary.
I agree with cycloneviv. You cannot leave out numerous.
I just noticed that you asked whether the meaning is changed if you leave out "numerous". You would end up with "Jellyfish are probably the most predators on Earth", which doesn't make sense. Anyone hearing/reading that would think that you had misssed out a word after "most".
They wouldn't assume that it was "numerous" that you had left out, either. You could have been saying "the most vicious predators", "the most colourful predators", "the most entertaining predators", in other words just about anything!
They wouldn't assume that it was "numerous" that you had left out, either. You could have been saying "the most vicious predators", "the most colourful predators", "the most entertaining predators", in other words just about anything!
That also doesn't make any sense either. I don't think there's really any way you can shorten your original sentence without changing the sense completely.
Ditto.
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As other posters have said, you can't leave out "numerous" unless you intend to change the meaning of the sentence entirely.
You could say "the earth" but it wouldn't sound correct because "on earth" is idiomatic. As well, if I hear the phrase "on the earth", I don't think of the entire earth (including the oceans) - I think of on the land. "On earth" indicates the entire life system which includes the oceans.