Jellyfish are brainless, boneless, eyeless creatures that are 95% water. Despite this simplicity, however, they’ve withstood ...

A box jellyfish advisory has been issued for Waikiki beaches today, according to HNL Alert. The advisory was issued at about ...

The deep seafloor remains a mystery—only 0.001% has been seen. We live on an ocean world. Yet we know surprisingly little ...

Animal life, emerging nearly 600 million years ago, showcases incredible diversity and unique traits. Unlike plants, animals ...

Data collected by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Marine and Environmental Research at the University of Porto (CIIMAR-UP) showed the research ...

Learn how the air-filled pneumatophore helps the Portuguese Man o’ War float and why it often ends up stranded on beaches.

While there was no evidence of distal regulation in the single-celled relatives of animals, early-branching animals like comb jellies, placozoans and cnidarians had many loops. The sea walnut ...

The authors of the study made the discovery by exploring the genomes of many of the oldest branches on the animal family tree, including comb jellies like the ‘sea walnut’ (Mnemiopsis leidyi), ...

Scientists have discovered a rare deep-sea predator beneath the ice of Antarctica. Stygiomedusa gigantea, known as the giant ...

Cnidarians have evolved an array of cell types, from mechanoreceptors to stinging cells. Here they provide evidence for a diversity of mechanosensory neural cell types in a sea anemone and reveal ...

Morfologia e caracterização molecular de Ceratomyxa sp. (Cnidaria, Myxosporea, Ceratomyxidae), infectando a vesícula biliar de Curimata cyprinoides (Characiformes: Curimatidae) no baixo rio Araguaia, ...