Though a landlubber may say the robots look more like a stumpy octopus than a jellyfish, according to the paper the shape is actually most similar to a juvenile “ephyra stage” moon jellyfish ...

Jellyfish are known for drifting to and fro at the whim of ocean currents—but not all species are so passive. The millions of golden jellyfish that pack Palau’s Jellyfish Lake spend much of ...

What most of us would recognise as a jellyfish - the otherworldly, gelatinous aquatic animals renowned for their sting-filled tentacles - is actually just the final stage of these animals' life cycle.

Jellyfish have survived for over 500 million years, making them more ancient than the dinosaurs. Today these otherworldly creatures can be found around the world, from coastal shallows to the ocean ...

a girl exclaims. “I think they’re just mesmerizing,” Jennie Janssen, the assistant curator who oversees the care of the aquarium’s jellyfish, tells me. “They don’t have a brain, ...

The edible mauve stinger, Pelagia noctiluca, is found in all the world's warm and temperate oceans Jellyfish numbers have been increasing rapidly in the Mediterranean and one species that has long ...

They’ll face traffic jams, algae blooms, sunburn and a rising threat – painful jellyfish encounters. Climate change, warming ocean temperatures, overfishing, invasive species and even ...

The imprints visible on the rock are fossils marking one of the most important scientific achievements of their careers — and it provides information about jellyfish that are still common in ...

Despite their often dangerous stings, these creatures create serene scenes as they float through the deep sea Jellyfish are among the planet’s simplest creatures, made up of about 95 percent ...

Whether you’re surfing in the ocean or taking a stroll along the shore, a jellyfish sting is one of the last things you’ll want to experience if you’re trying to spend some much needed time ...

Large jellyfish have been washing ashore, causing a lot of people to ask why,” the Seaside Aquarium posted on their Facebook page Sept. 24. “ ... The simple answer is that this happens every year in ...