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 ...

What most of us would recognise as a jellyfish - the otherworldly, gelatinous aquatic animals renowned for their sting-filled tentacles - is actually ... We are a charity and we rely on your support.

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 ...

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 ...

Mucus from jellyfish that sit upside-down on the seafloor ... quite in the dark as to the nature of these curious bits of animal life.” The researchers found, however, that cassiosomes are ...

A peach blossom jellyfish is shown in Hotel Lake, B.C. in this September 2022 handout photo. Some time more than 30 years ago, a single Chinese peach blossom jellyfish made its way into a lake in ...

This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Moon jellies, which are found in shallow bays around the world, look like small, not entirely friendly ghosts.

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 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 ...

Dr. Jaimie Tom, an emergency physician at Hawaii Pacific Health, tells Yahoo Life that jellyfish stings are at the top of the list when it comes to marine animal encounters that land people in the ...

Beachgoers have spoken of their surprise at the "surreal" sight of thousands of dead jellyfish washed up on the shore. The moon jellyfish were spotted at Broadsands Beach near Ilfracombe.