Hundreds of cannonball jellyfish washed ashore on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, on Oct. 12, 2022. (Cape Hatteras National Seashore) A typical day on the enchanting Ocracoke Island, part of North ...

The ocean is filled with jellyfish. They form critical links in the marine food chain, some are immortal and others remain floating enigmas. Some scientists consider them and other squishy creatures ...

Jellyfish might not be the fastest swimmers under the sea, but what they lack in speed they more than make up for in style. Their energy-efficient wiggle technique has made them the envy of the ...

When the summer heat rises, so does the ocean temperature, providing a breeding ground for a loathed sea creature: the jellyfish. Squishy dark red blobs have been seen floating in the surf and washed ...

Forget flies—this robot is so gentle, it wouldn’t hurt a jellyfish. Which is saying a lot, since the gelatinous lifeform is especially prone to damage, according to David Gruber, a marine biologist at ...

One of the biggest problems in marine biology is a practical one. How do you study ocean life? Some of the ocean’s most delicate creatures—brittle coral, miniature squid, and squishy jellyfish —can’t ...

Deep-sea jellyfish have inspired the design of robots and reveal insight about how life evolved in the ocean. But the blobby, bulbous creatures are difficult to study because they easily out-maneuver ...

Box jellyfish aren’t content just to be brainless, squishy, stinging bastards. It turns out they have bewilderingly interesting vision systems, too. They have 24 eyes of four different types — ...