Today these otherworldly creatures can be found around the world, from coastal shallows to the ocean deeps. Jellyfish are invertebrates – animals that don’t have a backbone – and belong to a group ...

In an exciting discovery, scientists have documented the first-ever sighting of a rare siphonophore in False Bay, South ...

These organisms are related to saltwater jellyfish (Cnidaria), only much smaller. The reasons why more people are suddenly becoming aware of these creatures is simply due to their growing numbers ...

The cnidaria collections include corals, jellyfish, sea anemones, octocorals and hydroids, with approximately 20% of the specimens known to be types. The geographical strength of the collection is our ...

The 560-million-year-old specimen, which was found in Charnwood Forest in Leicestershire, is likely a forerunner of cnidaria - the group of species that today includes jellyfish. The researchers ...

Jellyfish can produce offspring both sexually ... They belong to the class Scyphozoa, in the phylum Cnidaria, which also includes corals. (A phylum is such a broad taxonomic category that humans ...

The large size (for an embryo) and hollowed-out middle of each fossil is indicative that each of these embryos once fed upon ...