The venomous clinging jellyfish — typically native to the Pacific Ocean — returned to New Jersey’s waters this spring. The transparent jellyfish may be small — growing up to 1 inch in diameter, the ...

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 ...

They don’t have a brain, and yet they’re able to survive—to thrive—generation after generation.” Flower hat jellies exemplify ...

One of the biggest mysteries of evolution is how species first developed complex vision. Jellyfish are helping scientists solve this puzzle, as the group has independently evolved eyes at least nine ...

It started with a single, glowing pulse in the dark. While on a research expedition offshore near Louisiana, Alexandra Frolova Ruthenbeck, a former Texas A&M University at Galveston doctoral student, ...

Learn about the amazing wound healing process of a tiny jellyfish, in which cells "walk" toward each other to close wounds.