In the natural world, a few extraordinary species bend this rule in surprising ways. Some can regrow entire body parts. Some ...

Southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) off Australia’s southern coast are having calves less often than they used to. A ...

Bill Diamond said ETs are "definitely" real and ex-US President’s Barack Obama’s recent comments about them makes him even ...

When you gaze up at the night sky, you’re looking back in time. Light from the stars takes years, sometimes millennia, to ...

A jellyfish galaxy is found in dense galaxy clusters and appears to be “dripping” gas, forming long, tentacle-like tails of newborn stars trailing behind it. The visual resemblance to a jellyfish ...

While beachcombing this week along the Texas coast, I had one of those “wait … really?” moments that make exploring the shoreline so much fun. Tucked among the usual sargassum, shells and windblown ...

TEXAS, USA — A couple of strange-looking jellyfish spotted on North Padre Island this week turned out to be Atlantic box jellyfish, according to researchers with the Harte Research Institute. Jace ...

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 ...

An upside-down jellyfish drifts in a shallow lagoon, rhythmically contracting its translucent bell. By night that beat drops from roughly 36 pulses a minute to nearer 30, and the animal slips into a ...

University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) provide funding as members of The Conversation UK. An upside-down jellyfish drifts in a shallow lagoon, rhythmically contracting its ...

Turns out jellyfish and sea anemones – among the ancient creatures with a nervous system instead of a brain – have a very similar sleeping routine to our own. A new study published in Nature ...

Jellyfish are often grouped together as similar threats, but comparisons tell a different story. This video ranks multiple jellyfish species based on venom potency, behavior, and documented ...