Jellyfish are known for drifting to and fro at the whim of ocean currents—but not all species are so passive. The millions of golden jellyfish that pack Palau’s Jellyfish Lake spend much of ...
Essentially, when faced with stress, injury or old age, the immortal jellyfish can transform all of its existing cells into a younger state. This process, known as transdifferentiation ...
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 ...
Among them, seven species, including the cannonball jellyfish, have especially dangerous stings. In August last year, an 8-year-old girl died after being stung on her legs and hands by a ...
a girl exclaims. “I think they’re just mesmerizing,” Jennie Janssen, the assistant curator who oversees the care of the aquarium’s jellyfish, tells me. “They don’t have a brain, ...
The man beside me is unimpressed. "The batter's nice but the jellyfish tastes of nothing and it's slippery," he grumbles. I ask a three-year-old what she thinks. "Yummy or yucky?" "Yummy!" ...
But then her 18-month-old coltriever (a border collie and retriever mix) ran back to her "before I could say, 'get off it'." "He had his face on the jellyfish," she said. "I'm not sure if he put ...