Some of the most impressive life spans in the animal kingdom can be found in the phylum Cnidaria, which includes corals that ...

Formerly known as the 'mystery mollusk,' this glow-in-the-dark nudibranch is the first of its kind to be seen living in the ...

It's not the first time that scientists have made a discovery about a slippery marine species by accident. You may have heard about the "immortal jellyfish" which was discovered by chance in the 1980s ...

In a strange episode in the animal kingdom, a captive marine animal merged with another of its kind to become a single ...

The slow loris, a nocturnal primate from tropical regions, is often seen as one of nature's "dumbest" animals due to its ...

Deep-sea researchers have discovered a strange glowing sea slug off the coast of California that lives in the water column — ...

To catch fast, hard-bodied prey like shrimp, they need an advantage, like jellyfish with their stinging abilities, he ...

Comb jellies seem to use the strategy of aging in reverse as a survival strategy when they are under pressure.

The sea is full of awesome creatures and many unsolved mysteries. Although it may be home to the answer of one of the ...

Pics and videos showing thousands of rare, stinging jellyfish washing up on the Cork coastline have blown up online as animal ...

Turritopsis dohrnii, dubbed the immortal jellyfish, is the best-known of such species. A recent study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, however, has revealed a new member ...

which is still the most common jellyfish in captivity. Success with keeping jellies was due to the development of the kreisel tank (from the German for ‘merry-go-round’), which was originally designed ...