“Studying these animals in the ocean is hard,” she says, “and we haven’t figured out how to follow a two-millimeter jellyfish and see what happens to it.” Editors' note, December ...
Today these otherworldly creatures can be found around the world, from coastal shallows to the ocean deeps. Jellyfish are invertebrates – animals that don’t have a backbone – and belong to a group ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...