Nobody wants to experience a jellyfish sting. Luckily, if you stay alert and know what to look for, you can significantly ...

Why it's awesome: Earth's oceans are home to many secretive and unusual creatures that humans rarely see — including giant ...

The infamous box jellyfish developed its frighteningly powerful venom to instantly stun or kill prey, like fish and shrimp, so their struggle to escape wouldn’t damage its delicate tentacles.

A species of jellyfish hunts its prey by hurling venom grenades to create "stinging water", researchers said early this month, solving a long-standing mystery as to how they gather food without ...

The jellyfish typically possess 15 tentacles on each corner, each lined with thousands of stinging cells known as cnidocytes. These cells contain nematocysts, or stingers, that can inject venom ...

A modular worm robot and jellyfish demonstrate the benefits of "embodied energy" -- an approach that incorporates power sources into the body of a machine, to reduce its weight and cost.

The distinctive movement seen in C. cyclolites suggests that free-living corals may have more complex body functions, similar to jellyfish — the evolutionary cousin of coral — than scientists ...