The ocean's smallest swimming animals, such as jellyfish, can have a huge impact on large-scale ocean mixing, researchers have discovered. "The perspective we usually take is how the ocean--by its ...

OCEAN CITY, N.J. (CBS) -- A pest is making swimmers uncomfortable at the Jersey Shore. Some beachgoers are complaining of skin irritations after swimming in the ocean. Biologists say the sea lice aren ...

URI Graduate School of Oceanography biological oceanographer Dr. Dian Gifford and collaborators Dr. John Costello, Providence College, and Dr. Sean Colin, Roger Williams University, have been awarded ...

Clinging jellyfish have been found in larger numbers recently in New Jersey's bay and estuary waters from Monmouth to Cape May counties, according to an NBC 10 report. Although the jellyfish that got ...

Scientists studying Barnegat Bay say the number of stinging jellyfish, or sea nettles, has surged in the past three years. That is troubling news, and not just because of the risk of a few stings.

The angler outreach specialist for the Missouri Department of Conservation had heard about the Missouri invertebrates, but even so, he was awed “to see what is thought of as an ocean animal in ...

Tiny freshwater jellyfish, seldom seen in Northland waters, were spotted in recent days in Namakan Lake along the Ontario border. Thousands of the small jellyfish were spotted Saturday by Steve Geving ...

The Cauliflower jellyfish gets its name because its body looks like a fluffy cauliflower. It has a round, bumpy shape and floats gently in warm tropical waters, especially in the Indo-Pacific. Its ...

Jellyfish-shaped robots made of magnetic ferrofluid can be controlled by light through an underwater obstacle course. Swarms of these soft robots could be useful for delivering chemicals throughout a ...

Jellyfish begin their lives as stationary polyps, then metamorphose into one or more small jellyfish. These results are part of a paper my advisor and I just published in PLOS ONE. Photos by me. As a ...

Thousands of jellyfish, called Valella or Blue Sailors, washed up on Hallandale Beach, about 18 miles north of Miami, on the morning of Thursday, March 31, 2016, according to the city of Hallandale ...

A tiny invasive jellyfish that packs a powerful sting has once again been found in a Jersey Shore river. Dr. Paul Bologna, a Montclair State University professor and jellyfish expert, says 40 ...