In her second installment of "Letters from Down Under," Skalnik takes readers into the hidden world of coral reefs, exposing their vulnerabilities and the hope which still exists for one of nature’s ...

A rare translucent jellyfish that washed up to the shore was spotted and captured on camera by a photographer at Porth ...

Some go so far as to generate their own sulphuric acid. Yet others will store up the painful nematocysts — the stinging cells of their prey — in their own bodies, making a painful arsenal of weaponry ...

Anemones are cnidarians, a group including corals and jellies. They have radial symmetry and tentacles with batteries of nematocysts (stinging cells) around a central mouth. The creature itself will ...