Hordes of bright blue, jellyfish-like sea creatures are washing up on beaches across California. As of Monday, thousands of the critters — called velella velella or by-the-wind sailors — have been ...

The deepstaria jelly is a creature unlike any other that is found in one of the deepest parts of the ocean. It is known for ...

The brand-new species was given the name Tripedalia maipoensis as a tribute to where scientists originally found the marine ...

Though once thought to be siphonophores — colonies of specialized zooids — the velella velella is now classified as a single ...

The velella have come ashore by the thousands on Central Coast beaches. This is the way the beach in Santa Barbara looked in ...

Images of a baby colossal squid this week reminds us that the deep sea is an almost inexhaustible source of awe.

Sprains, cuts and stings: don’t let these hazards on the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina ruin your beach day.

Taken together, the deaths have raised the specter of past “unusual mortality events” that caused whales to die in ...

The immortal jellyfish was first discovered in the Mediterranean Sea in 1883, but its incredible regenerative ... in a biological sense that defies conventional understanding of animal mortality.

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BBC Earth describes this phenomenon vividly, “When the medusa of the immortal jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii) dies, it sinks to the ocean floor and begins to decay. Amazingly, its cells then ...