Many people enjoy spending their summers at the beach, listening to the waves, and exploring colorful tidepools. But too ...

With the recent winds and storms Texas has been experiencing, something "rarely seen" has reached the shores of Corpus ...

Though phytoplankton give the Hudson River a potentially unappealing greenish color, their presence indicates a healthy ...

This jellyfish species has a clear body, can glow green and has an almost unnoticeable sting, Jace Tunnell writes.

Dr. Fields held a tiny jellyfish brought up in the plankton nets in a seawater sample brown with algae.Credit...Billy Hickey for The New York Times Suddenly, there were fewer of the larger ...

BARBER: "Plankton" comes from the Greek word for drifter and refers to anything that can't swim against the current, which makes jellyfish plankton. And the plankton we're talking about today ...

Beachcombers who walk the Texas coast this March may spot an unusual jellyfish among the usual marine life. The Mushroom Cap ...

Portuguese man-of-war in Formentera. The stinging, venom-filled nematocysts in the tentacles of the Portuguese man o’ war can paralyze small fish and other prey.

an animal closely related to jellyfish, according to a Feb. 28 study published in the journal Plankton and Benthos Research. Thousands of new species are found each year. Here are three of our ...