With the continuing collapse of fisheries around the world, a new balance of power is being set in the open oceans—one where jellies are the dominant biomass, not more modern vertebrates. This is not ...

Floating and drifting along the oceans' currents and coasts are thousands of different kinds of jellyfish. Some, like the lion's mane jellyfish, are bigger than a deep sea diver. Others, including ...

Most of the time, if a venture into the water provokes an encounter with a jellyfish, the swimmer will not be happy. Even tentacle-less jellyfish can be deadly. Typically, swimming in a lake ...

Portuguese men-of-war, among the most potent of the jellyfish family, are washing north with the Gulf Stream toward Central Florida beaches. The stinging creatures come every spring, but this year ...

Janine Hung created the Jellyfish Lodge as a solution to problems plaguing the world’s waterways. The solar-powered structures feature interior gardens that flourish while filtering polluted water.

Have you had the chance to head out to any part of Hilton Head Island’s 12 miles of white sand beaches lately? If so, you may have noticed some of the many beached jellyfish that have washed ashore on ...

German automation company Festo has created an extraordinary helium-filled flying robot that propels itself through the air by repeatedly turning itself inside-out. The creation, known as the ...

The mechanism behind the movement of a free-living coral that moves towards the light has been finally decoded. Cycloseris cyclolites, a free-living mushroom coral species, responds to specific types ...

With its long, sticky tentacles, a jellyfish can capture food particles as they float by. Using the jellyfish – and its tentacles equipped with repeating patterns of sticky structures -- for ...