Jellyfish are finally giving up their secrets. ... The study of gelatinous zooplankton began in the late 1800s by scooping specimens out of the water from docks and ships.

Not much attention is paid to plankton because these creatures are usually hidden from sight. They are mostly microscopic in size and live in aquatic environments, but human lives are intricately ...

Jellyfish are found in all oceans, from polar to tropical regions. In the future, gelatinous zooplankton could spread even further, as it is generally one of the winners of climate change.

Jellyfish are found in all oceans, from polar to tropical regions. In the future, gelatinous zooplankton could spread even further, as it is generally one of the winners of climate change: unlike ...

These little clear blobs washing up on South Carolina beaches aren’t jellyfish. What you need to about salps, the bizarre plankton in SC.

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 ...

One of last summer’s strandings — a 7-foot-3-inch fish in Gearhart — proved to be a rare hoodwinker sunfish, Mola tecta. New ...

Jellyfish are about 95% water and are simple creatures, ... Yet these animals are successful predators, feeding on sea creatures like plankton, small crustaceans, fish eggs and larvae, ...

This species of jellyfish is harmless to humans and tends to feed on plankton. Freshwater jellyfish can grow to the size of a penny and have up to 500 tentacles, though their tentacles cannot ...