This animal reproduces by buds, which we watch close up in time-lapse images. In another kind of jellyfish, the buds grow inside then live outside for a few days until being on their own.
Jellyfish have survived for over 500 million years, making them more ancient than the dinosaurs. Today these otherworldly creatures can be found around the world, from coastal shallows to the ocean ...
What most of us would recognise as a jellyfish - the otherworldly, gelatinous aquatic animals renowned for their sting-filled tentacles - is actually just the final stage of these animals' life cycle.
Jellyfish are known for drifting to and fro at the whim of ocean currents—but not all species are so passive. The millions of golden jellyfish that pack Palau’s Jellyfish Lake spend much of ...
Jellyfish can produce offspring both sexually ... “In the human life cycle, our body, when we’re born, has all the pieces that are going to be there as an adult,” observes Casey Dunn ...
The edible mauve stinger, Pelagia noctiluca, is found in all the world's warm and temperate oceans Jellyfish numbers have been increasing rapidly in the Mediterranean and one species that has long ...