Researchers Crack Centuries-Old ‘Skeleton’ Mystery With Help of 550-Million-Yr-Old Fossils, Reveal What Ancient Animals ...

So, The Oldest Living Animal Has To Be The ‘Immortal’ Jellyfish, Right? Despite the immortal jellyfish’s incredible ability to potentially live forever, claiming it as the oldest living ...

The immortal jellyfish, known as Turritopsis dohrnii, has the ability to reverse age and theoretically live an eternal life.

This crafty crab was caught using a jellyfish as a disguise and a living shield. Skittering along the Filipino seabed while gripping hold of a jellyfish, this crab has specially adapted back legs to ...

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.

Jellyfish are invertebrates – animals that don’t have a backbone – and belong to a group called Cnidaria. Some of their closest relatives include colourful corals and anemones. “Jellyfish are ...

While we have studied blastema and how they form in some animals, we never understood how they formed in jellyfish, thus making their ability to regenerate lost tentacles a mystery. Now ...

The infamous box jellyfish developed its frighteningly powerful venom to instantly stun or kill prey, like fish and shrimp, so their struggle to escape wouldn’t damage its delicate tentacles.

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 ...

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.

A sharp decline in the big Box Jellyfish population along the north Queensland coastline has experts concerned, with ...