Few natural phenomena are as mesmerizing as a swimming jellyfish, with its graceful full-body contractions. Biologists rhapsodize about it for a different reason than your typical aquarium-goer, ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

VENICE, Italy (WSVN) — A jellyfish was spotted swimming through the canals in Venice after Italy’s lockdown saw a steep decline in the traffic on the city’s waterways. Andrea Mangoni, a biologist who ...

Burgessomedusa unambiguously shows that large, swimming jellyfish with a typical saucer or bell-shaped body had already evolved more than 500 million years ago. Burgessomedusa fossils are ...

No disrespect, but roboticists have got nothing on the animal kingdom. Birds cut through the air with ease, while our drones plummet out of the sky. Humans balance elegantly on two legs, while ...

The lion’s mane jellyfish is the world’s largest jellyfish and, as John Dabiri from Stanford University can attest, its tentacles pack a very painful sting. During a photoshoot for Popular Science, a ...

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