Jellyfish, simple and brainless creatures, require sleep just like humans, according to recent scientific findings. This ...

Quick Take Picking up a live electric wire and swinging it around sounds like a terrible idea. For the blanket octopus, it is a daily survival strategy. As if eight arms were not enough, this species ...

From their flaming red bodies, they emit glowing blue lights to defend the prey in their transparent stomachs.

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

Benefits to society from coral reefs, including fisheries, tourism, coastal protection, pharmaceutical discovery and more, ...

Darwin collected many of these specimens during his historic journey to the Galápagos Islands between 1831 and 1836, a voyage ...

Adrian Barnett explains why the Praya dubia is not just one of the longest predators in the ocean, but one of the most abundant too.

Picture a place where no roads lead, no buildings stand, and the only footprints in the sand are yours and the shorebirds'.

Go behind the scenes at the Greensboro Science Center to meet moon jellyfish and learn surprising facts from animal care specialist Elizabeth Hincker.

Some animal facts sound like internet exaggerations until you look at the research behind them. Biologists and field ...