With a baking hot summer just starting, millions of Americans have already begun flooding the nation’s beaches. They’ll face traffic jams, algae blooms, sunburn and a rising threat – painful jellyfish ...

ORANGE BEACH - This year, purple flags warning of dangerous marine life have flown at local beaches more often than years past, signaling everything from the arrival of thousands of Portuguese ...

At Delaware's Lewes Beach, Beach Patrol Captain Strohm Edwards has seen more jellyfish this year than any other and stings have tripled. Along the Nantucket Sound shoreline, researchers believe ...

AN urgent warning has been issued to swimmers after reports of “painful” jellyfish stings on Irish beaches. The Irish Coast Guard has urged people to be vigilant when visiting beaches after it ...

Nothing can mess up a day at the beach like a jellyfish sting. Jellyfish are common around the world, and these transparent creatures can be some of the most dangerous creatures you're likely to ...

Jellyfish: Jellyfish and sea jellies are the informal common names given to the medusa-phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, a major part of the phylum Cnidaria. Jellyfish ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. People rarely enjoy meeting a jellyfish. On the beach they appear limp, ...

For years, science fiction has promised a future filled with robots that can swim, crawl and fly like animals. In one research lab at Caltech, what once felt like distant imagination is becoming ...

Jellyfish are thought to pre-date the dinosaurs by millions of years. Thousands of jellyfish have been launched into space for experiments. Here are 12 things you probably didn't know about these ...

Verena Ras currently works for H3ABioNet - a non profit organization based at the University of Cape Town. Verena is also a scientist and PhD candidate at the University of the Western Cape and is ...