Jellyfish are among the oldest animals on Earth, found in all the world's oceans and serve as valuable model systems for biological research. Microbiologists at Kiel University (CAU) have now shown ...

The moon jellyfish, Aurelia aurita ... our Principal Researcher in venom evolution. “They have thousands of these along their tentacles. The stinging cells contain a microscopic harpoon filled with ...

In 2006, beaches in Italy and Spain were closed because of a bloom of jellyfish known as mauve stingers. In 2013 a Swedish nuclear plant temporarily shut down because moon jellies were blocking ...

Phages can kill bacteria on or in a multicellular host organism, such as the polyp of the moon jellyfish. Phages specialize ...

The only location which did have some was Bardsey Island, where there was an abundance of moon jellyfish around the landing slipway. Little is known about jellyfish off the coast of Wales but ...