Among them: a type of giant red jellyfish three feet wide, sponges shaped like umbrellas, and pulsating rope-like creatures with tentacles that glow in the dark called siphonophores that can grow ...

One of the planet’s most notorious invasive species is a comb jelly, Mnemiopsis leidyi. A native of the east coast of North and South America, the comb jelly is capable of eating ten times its ...

(CNN)-- Research into the mysterious green glow of a jellyfish earned three scientists this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry, the Nobel Foundation announced Wednesday. Osamu Shimomura of the ...

From fireflies to comb jellies, here is a list of eight animals that naturally glow in the dark. Fireflies use flashing light to attract mates, but begin emitting light even as larvae. The glowworm ...

The jellyfish phenomenon that is often spotted from the Americas after SpaceX launches is “a similar, but actually distinctly different phenomenon,” Combs said. That spectacle is caused by an ...