Engineers at Caltech and Stanford University have developed a tiny prosthetic that enables jellyfish to swim faster and more efficiently than they normally do, without stressing the animals. The ...

How can humanity better explore the unknown regions of Earth's vast oceans? Some scientists say they have found a promising new method: bionic jellyfish. A long-running project managed by scientists ...

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No disrespect, but roboticists have got nothing on the animal kingdom. Birds cut through the air with ease, while our drones plummet out of the sky. Humans balance elegantly on two legs, while ...

The Canadian Rocky Mountains offer more than scenic views: The mountains have been hiding fossils of an ancient jellyfish species. Researchers analyzed 182 fossils that were found in the middle ...

Burgessomedusa unambiguously shows that large, swimming jellyfish with a typical saucer or bell-shaped body had already evolved more than 500 million years ago. Burgessomedusa fossils are ...

Scientists at Caltech and Stanford University want to turn jellyfish into deep-sea explorers that could be directed around the ocean, recording info as they travel. In a paper published in the journal ...

The Canadian Rocky Mountains offer more than scenic views: The mountains have been hiding fossils of an ancient jellyfish species. Researchers analyzed 182 fossils that were found in the middle ...

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Locomotion through the seas can be arduous. Water is more viscous than air, so underwater creatures must overcome strong frictional resistance as they swim. To make things more difficult, liquid water ...

Ginger Zee swims in a lake filled to the brim with 20 million jellyfish. — -- Welcome to Palau! The string of over three hundred tiny green islands, 3 degrees north of the equator in the North ...