For three summers in a row, researchers working in the Mai Po Nature Reserve noticed something unusual drifting through the brackish shrimp ponds. At first glance, the small, translucent animal looked ...

(Maura McCarthy) Jellyfish species have all kinds of offbeat common names: fried-egg jellies, cabbage heads, big reds. But their scientific names can be funky too. Phialella zappai is named in honor ...

The Portuguese man-of-war, or Physalia, is a jelly-like creature that uses a special gas-filled balloon to float on the sea surface. Physalia inhabits the area where the ocean meets the atmosphere, in ...

Deep within the sea lies another world entirely. It’s a world of complete darkness, where light is absorbed thousands of feet below the ocean surface. The temperature remains constant at 39 degrees ...

Jellyfish are often grouped together as similar threats, but comparisons tell a different story. This video ranks multiple ...

Multiple massive, rare jellyfish washed up on the Texas coast recently, surprising some beachgoers and feasting on a smaller jellyfish species. Jace Tunnell, the director of community engagement at ...

An underwater videographer has just published mesmerizing footage of the world’s largest, longest, and heaviest known jellyfish species—a lion’s mane jelly. “Several minutes into the dive, I noticed a ...

Box jellyfish glide through tropical shallows with an almost delicate grace, yet their venom ranks among the most lethal on ...

More than 300 mauve stingers, or palagia noctiluca, were recorded off an Anglesey beach last week, as well as other locations as far south as Pembrokeshire. The delicate, purplish jellyfish, whose ...

Aging gracefully comes naturally to these creatures, which can live for hundreds, and sometimes even thousands, of years Brian Handwerk - Science Correspondent Life is short, the old saying goes, but ...

In the same week that New South Wales experienced four shark attacks, Victorian beachgoers were warned about stinging ...