Jellyfish News

Newport - New York and New Jersey were not the only areas damaged by Hurricane Sandy, in fact, Rhode Island's Save the Bay Aquarium was heavily damaged, leaving 300 animals homeless.

Scientists have created an artificial jellyfish that could potentially save lives in the future. The jellyfish is made out of transparent elastic silicone, which could help form future organic organs.

Every summer millions of Israelis and tourists head to the beaches along the Mediterranean coast looking for relief from the blazing Middle Eastern heat but a growing menace is keeping them out of the water.

Heidelberg - One question that scientists have never fully unravelled is how the sting of jellyfish works and why the stings of different species ‘sting’ differently. Some new research conducted by Heidelberg University provides some answers.

Swimming marine animals, such as jellyfish, influence Earth's climate by mixing cold and warm ocean water and by boosting the rate heat travels through the seas, according to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute researchers.

Lately, swimmers and hikers on southern U.S. beaches have noticed many shimmering, translucent globs -- an annoying dead jellyfish plague, caused by humans catching too many fish and shrinking the jellies' food supply, a recent study suggested.

Oslo - A unique fish species has adapted to a hostile environment, poisonous to most other marine organisms, becoming an important part of a food chain that includes other fish, birds and mammals in the coast of Namibia.

A 10-year-old girl amazes everyone by surviving her encounter with the world's most venomous creature - a box jellyfish.

A species of jellyfish, hydrozoan, has the ability to revert to an earlier stage of development, and then grow to adulthood again, enabling an individual jellyfish to live indefinitely.

Three Japanese fishermen had to be rescued earlier this month after a hoard of giant jellyfish capsized their 10-ton trawler.