Each tentacle has about 5,000 stinging cells, which are triggered not by touch but by the presence of a chemical on the outer layer of its prey. Box jellies are highly advanced among jellyfish.

Jellyfish can produce offspring both sexually and asexually; depending on the species, they may be able to create copies of themselves by dividing in two, or laying down little pods of cells ...

As the Immortal jellyfish is able to regenerate its cells, scientists are attempting ... In outward appearance, the flower hat jellyfish looks like the type of hat the late Queen Elizabeth II ...

“Jellyfish have stinging cells called nematocytes,” explains Dr Ronald Jenner, our Principal Researcher in venom evolution. “They have thousands of these along their tentacles. The stinging cells ...

Researchers have discovered that a single molecule, Wnt3, coordinates a two-step process of cell polarity orientation that ...

In some cases, a new arm would begin to regrow. Cordeiro’s work for the lab is focused on juvenile jellyfish known as polyps. The researchers chop and separate the cells of the polyp. “You start to ...

Essentially, when faced with stress, injury or old age, the immortal jellyfish can transform all of its existing cells into a younger state. This process, known as transdifferentiation ...

It can be seen as a set of instructions that tells cells where to grow and how to form an animal's body shape, including which end becomes the head and which becomes the tail. The jellyfish is a ...