If you’ve been to a beach in the Grand Strand lately, you might have noticed thousands of little clear blobs scattered across the sand. But what are the colorless, gelatinous creatures? The strange ...

Gelatinous zooplankton, including jellyfish and other diverse, nearly transparent organisms, play important roles in marine ecosystems. Climate change is expected to significantly alter their ...

For a long time, scientists assumed that jellyfish were a dead-end food source for predatory fish. However, a team from the Alfred Wegener Institute together with the Thünen Institute has now ...

A team of scientists are hoping to discover new species of gelatinous zooplankton in a three year underwater journey through the world’s oceans. The 12 researchers are hoping to find out more about ...

Jellyfish and other gelatinous zooplankton are present throughout the world's oceans, with the greatest concentrations in the mid-latitudes of the northern hemisphere, showed the scientists who ...

Julia Chavarry is a fifth-year biological oceanography PhD student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Chavarry is originally from Woodbridge, N.J., and attended Johns Hopkins ...

The quantity and diversity of tiny creatures found in a deep-sea survey in the Bermuda Triangle region of the Atlantic Ocean is amazing scientists. During a 20-day cruise last month, researchers used ...

For years, evolutionary biologists have believed that the sedentary sponge—that mushy aquatic creature so rudimentary it doesn’t even have tissues or nerves—branched off the animal family tree before ...