Izumi T, Ikeda S, Nozoe Y, Goto S, Imamura N, Kinoshita T, Uchida H, Hamatsu Y, Akiyama H, Okuizumi K (2026) Discoveries from ornamental jellyfish in aquaria—description of Malagazzia michelin sp. nov ...

Jellyfish are a highly diverse group of aquatic animals. Their diameters range from 1 mm to over 1 m. Most have long tentacles, in some cases reaching more than 10 m in length. They come in a wide ...

Freshwater jellyfish, chiefly represented by the hydrozoan Craspedacusta sowerbii, exhibit a complex metagenetic life cycle comprising benthic polyps and pelagic medusae. Native to East Asian river ...

An artistic reconstruction of Auroralumina attenboroughii, based on a fossil dated to the Ediacaran Period and recently discovered in the U.K.'s Charnwood Forest. ((Dunn/Kenchington, et al., Nature ...

The first in-depth look at the genome of a jellyfish -- the moon jelly Aurelia aurita -- shows that early jellyfish recycled existing genes to gain the ability to morph from polyp to medusa. Jellyfish ...

Decades later, Anna Klompen came across this quote, which sparked her interest in marine biology. Eschewing the charismatic megafauna of the ocean, Klompen instead turned to the poorly understood ...