A recent study of gelatinous marine creatures revealed a curious ability in which two animals fuse and function as a single organism.

“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 life cycle of jellyfish can seem almost otherworldly. Some species are the closer to actual immortality than anything ...

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 ...

One young girl was badly stung on her arms and stomach while playing in the water near a popular children's playground at ...

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.

TOMOPTERIS Tomopteris is a genus of plankton (small floating marine organisms found all over the world’s oceans). While many ...

While this food production seems great for the jellyfish, the algae can also change its host animal's immunity, similar to ...

The Portuguese Man o’ War - It has a gas-filled float that keeps it on the water’s surface, and long, stinging tentacles that ...