Jellyfish have survived for over 500 million years, making them more ancient than the dinosaurs. Today these otherworldly creatures can be found around the world, from coastal shallows to the ocean ...

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 ...

The largest jellyfish in the world, its bell can reach 7 feet, and tentacles can grow up to 120 feet long. Found in the cold waters of the Atlantic and Arctic. A deep-sea dweller, rarely seen ...

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.

The edible mauve stinger, Pelagia noctiluca, is found in all the world's warm and temperate oceans Jellyfish numbers have been increasing rapidly in the Mediterranean and one species that has long ...

Sea swimmers who suffered stings by jellyfish off the Isles of Scilly have compared them to "chemical burns". The incident happened during a Scilly Swim Challenge when a group of about 120 ...

They’ll face traffic jams, algae blooms, sunburn and a rising threat – painful jellyfish encounters. Climate change, warming ocean temperatures, overfishing, invasive species and even ...

Warner’s handling of Cartoon Network and its animated legacy in recent months is something that could diplomatically be described as “not ideal,” between the closure of the iconic Cartoon ...

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The BBC understands warrants were executed in Norwich at the companies Green Jellyfish and Kirby and Haslam. Both companies said they had "nothing to hide". According to HMRC, the arrests were ...

IN UTAH. WAY TO GO, BAKARI. FRESHWATER JELLYFISH HAVE BEEN FOUND IN IOWA, AND THE DISCOVERY WAS ACTUALLY MADE BY A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT. OSKALOOSA SCHOOL DISTRICT SHARED THIS VIDEO WITH US.