Those free-swimming jellyfish in the sea don't start out in that familiar medusa form, but rather start as sessile and asexual polyps. Now, researchers have discovered what triggers that ...

Swarms of jellyfish have invaded a bay in the Black Sea producing an unusual natural display, photos posted on social media show. The images reveal countless jellyfish of the genus (group of species) ...

Moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) in Egypt's Red Sea. (Image by Alexander Vasenin, Wikipedia Commons, via Courthouse News) Moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) in Egypt's Red Sea. (Image by Alexander Vasenin ...

While heads were turned skyward as astronauts made a historic journey to the moon, researchers at Texas A&M University at Galveston announced the discovery of a new species of moon jellyfish deep in ...

With their translucent bells, moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) move around the oceans in a very efficient way. Scientists at the University of Bonn have now used a mathematical model to investigate how ...

An unusually warm ocean temperature has contributed to a larger-than-usual amount of Aurelia aurita, or moon jellyfish, floating around the waters of Juneau. Plentiful food in the form of zooplankton, ...

How does one genome create two completely different body plans in one animal? New research answers questions about the regulation of metamorphosis, an animal changing from one physical form to another ...

Those free-swimming jellyfish in the sea don't start out in that familiar medusa form, but rather start as sessile and asexual polyps. Now, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current ...