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 ...

Did You Know That a Jellyfish Never Dies—Technically? It Rises From the Ashes Like a Phoenix. According to a BBC Earth report, many of us imagine jellyfish in the "medusa stage"—the second ...

a girl exclaims. “I think they’re just mesmerizing,” Jennie Janssen, the assistant curator who oversees the care of the aquarium’s jellyfish, tells me. “They don’t have a brain, ...

Jellyfish, often found washed ashore or trapped between rocks, are a good example. Even if they appear harmless, these special sea creatures will surprise you with how quickly they sting — even ...

In a recent paper in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, researchers at Florida Atlantic University describe the process of building and testing five free-swimming soft robotic jellyfish. The paper ...

Beta-carotene, produced by microbes within the jellyfish's natural microbiome, plays a key role in this process. Without these microorganisms, the so-called strobilation process—the ...

And there is one creature that embodies more than most just how that happens. This is the Golden Jellyfish. A unique subspecies only found in this one lake, on this one island, in the tiny ...

An army of spotted jellyfish created an ethereal sight, lighting up the water on recent fall nights when they made an unseasonable appearance near Kagoshima Bay. Several hundred spotted jellyfish ...

World Jellyfish Day is on November 3 to raise awareness about jellyfish and their ecological importance. Since 2014, this day brings out the importance of such ancient creatures that have existed ...