Tag: jellyfish

Jellyfish can sting swimmers and their prey with 'mucus grenades'

The supercharged jellyfish swam up to three times faster than they normally would have.

To box jellyfish carries enough venom to kill 60 people. Until now, there was no way to neutralize its deadly ...

Gotta catch em all!

Don't be so quick to say no.

It took us 175 years to spot the difference.

Sleep could be as old as life itself.

The debate isn't over, but a comprehensive gene study suggests marine jellyfish were the first creatures to diverge. This distinction ...

This may be the first known case of simplification from a macro to a microorganism, a cheap trick which evolution ...

A novel, previously unseen self-repair mechanism was reported by a team of researchers at Caltech who studied the moon jellyfish. ...

With their eerie, translucent and soft bodies, their translucent and intricate shapes and bizarre bioluminescent displays, comb jellies are among ...

It's been previously shown that the jellyfish are the world's most efficient swimmers, and researchers wanted to see if they ...

Healthy wildlife populations aren’t always good news. Sweden’s largest nuclear power plant had to be shut down for three weeks ...

Jellyfish are really impressive creatures, for all their simplicity; now, a new research has shown that the elastic body allows ...

A team led by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Harvard University have built this remarkable display ...

After a three year effort, researchers at Virginia Tech have successfully managed to create a silicone robot that functions underwater by ...

Federal regulators have designated almost 42,000 square miles of ocean as critical habitat for the leatherback turtles, the largest turtles ...

So, microorganisms and other humans aside, what do you think is the deadliest creature in animal kingdom? A snake, perhaps ...

The Nomura Jellyfish Nomura Jellyfish are a large species of Japanese jellyfish, that seems to be giving them some big ...