Some jellyfish can also generate their own light, called bioluminescence – further adding to their otherworldly beauty. Jellyfish don’t have bones, brains, hearts, teeth or blood. However, what they ...
Comb jellies regenerate by fusing together after injury, sharing muscle movements and digestion, opening research into ...
Jellyfish do not have organs or bones and only have a "basic network of neurons," according to Ocean Conservancy, an environmental non-profit. As a result, the animals don't feel pain in the same ...
Anatomically they’re relatively simple animals; they lack not just brains, but also blood and bones, and possess only rudimentary sense organs. Despite their name, jellyfish aren’t ...
Also known as Starfish, they have a star-like body structure and live at the bottom of the ocean. They have regenerating ...
What most of us would recognise as a jellyfish - the otherworldly, gelatinous aquatic animals renowned for their sting-filled tentacles - is actually just the final stage of these animals' life cycle.
Jellyfish are known for drifting to and fro at the whim of ocean currents—but not all species are so passive. The millions of golden jellyfish that pack Palau’s Jellyfish Lake spend much of ...
From 1946–1958, the US military dropped an estimated 318 explosive devices into the Pacific. This destroyed the environment ...
She knew that deep inside the cave lay thousands of bones. Small bones and large bones, jawbones and ankle bones, finger bones and foot bones and skulls. The bones belonged to strange creatures ...
The edible mauve stinger, Pelagia noctiluca, is found in all the world's warm and temperate oceans Jellyfish numbers have been increasing rapidly in the Mediterranean and one species that has long ...
They’ll face traffic jams, algae blooms, sunburn and a rising threat – painful jellyfish encounters. Climate change, warming ocean temperatures, overfishing, invasive species and even ...
he routinely walked down to the water, scanning for comb jellies. “They look like a jellyfish,” he says, “but they’re completely different.” It’s a blob the size of a silver dollar ...