More than 300 mauve stingers, or palagia noctiluca, were recorded off an Anglesey beach last week, as well as other locations as far south as Pembrokeshire. The delicate, purplish jellyfish, whose ...

The Australian box jellyfish, not any snake or scorpion, holds the title of the most venomous marine animal on the planet.

Alarm at Tenerife’s beaches! Portuguese man-of-war are currently spreading off the popular vacation island. A swimmer had to ...

At Delaware's Lewes Beach, Beach Patrol Captain Strohm Edwards has seen more jellyfish this year than any other and stings have tripled. Along the Nantucket Sound shoreline, researchers believe ...

A student-led research group from Tohoku University has discovered a new species of the venomous Physalia (commonly known as Portuguese man-of-war) that has never been seen before in northeast Japan.

Rosmawati also advised the public to wear shoes or sandals when walking along the beach. According to her, this species, also ...

A TOURIST hotspot beach has been closed for swimming after sightings of a poisonous jellyfish. Holidaymakers have been warned ...

The public has been warned not to touch venomous jellyfish that washed ashore at several beaches in Terengganu.

Box jellyfish get their name from their cube-shaped bell, with long tentacles trailing from each corner. When alive in the water, those tentacles can stretch several feet. "Unlike most jellyfish, they ...