The rare purple jellyfish are only small - but capable of a powerful sting and glow brightly at night if disturbed. 'The mauve stinger is a small jellyfish, but it certainly packs a powerful punch ...
The purple splotches on its oral arms are mouths. Worldwide more than 825,000 tons of jellyfish are harvested each year for human consumption. Jellies like this one, of the genus Rhopilema ...
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.
The largest jellyfish in the world, its bell can reach 7 feet, and tentacles can grow up to 120 feet long. Found in the cold waters of the Atlantic and Arctic. A deep-sea dweller, rarely seen ...
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 ...
Sea swimmers who suffered stings by jellyfish off the Isles of Scilly have compared them to "chemical burns". The incident happened during a Scilly Swim Challenge when a group of about 120 ...