When a group of paleontologists dusted off a group of fossils that had been sitting on the shelf at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada since the 1980s, they uncovered a spooky organism with a ...

Any day Carl Mattocks can cut down on stinging jellyfish populations is a good one. The season as a whole just got better after learning that his method of scrubbing away the problem species is ...

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) announces the oldest swimming jellyfish in the fossil record with the newly named Burgessomedusa phasmiformis. These findings are announced in the journal Proceedings of ...

Jellyfish belong to medusozoans, or animals producing medusae, and include today's box jellies, hydroids, stalked jellyfish and true jellyfish. Medusozoans are part of one of the oldest groups of ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Jellyfish are more advanced than once thought. A new study from the University of Copenhagen has demonstrated that Caribbean box jellyfish can learn at a much more complex level than ever imagined – ...