“I think they’re just mesmerizing,” Jennie Janssen, the assistant curator who oversees the care of the aquarium’s jellyfish ... some like the ocean surface, others the depths, and a ...

Why it's awesome: Earth's oceans are home to many secretive and unusual creatures that humans rarely see — including giant phantom jellies. These elusive deep-sea creatures have a 3.3-foot-wide ...

Scientists found a free-living coral species actively travels toward blue light resembling its natural habitat and moves like ...

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 ...

“Jellyfish release eggs and sperm into the ocean where they get fertilised,” explains Miranda. “The fertilised egg changes into a free-swimming larva. Then the larva matures into a polyp, which finds ...

The larva will move about in the current until it finds a hard surface to establish itself. It will then start to mature and grow. Larvae mature into polyps, which will then bud off and mature into ...

The energy flows from sun, to algae, to jellyfish. The ones at the surface are gently turning and, the reason they do that is to give all their algae an equal dose of sunlight. And it's not just ...

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