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.

AFTER a prolonged illness Prof. Haeckel died at his house in Jena on August 8 at the age of eighty-five. .His signature of the infamous manifesto issued by ninety-three German professors in 1914 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Its distinct squareness allows this cool jellyfish to move rapidly through the water. In the waters off North America’s West Coast lives the crystal jellyfish (Aequorea victoria), a type of ...

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 ...

After watching the inspirational biopic, viewers have wanted to learn more about her record-breaking swim through ...

Jellyfish are some of the Earth's most ancient extant animals. They're also immensely diverse—most organisms that are called jellyfish are part of the phylum Cnidaria, which includes more than ...

An invasive, freshwater jellyfish is popping up in B.C. waters in the thousands and future sightings could increase rapidly, according to UBC research. The peach blossom jellyfish clones have been ...

If you have a jellyfish sting, you may be tempted to pee on it to alleviate the sting. However, it's not recommended to do so despite the common belief that urine will ease the pain and heal the ...

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 ...

MedusApp, a platform on which people report jellyfish sightings and stings, has also recorded hundreds of incidents every day throughout the summer. The app features a real-time map to help ...