'Tis the season ... for Aurelia aurita. Meet the moon jellyfish or moon jelly. Actually, you're better off staying away. Like an early snowbird to Florida, the moon jellyfish proliferates this time of ...

SANIBEL, Fla. (WFLA) — Monstrous-sized, unusual-looking jellyfish have recently begun washing up along Florida’s beaches, prompting questions from researchers and beachgoers. The giant jellies, some ...

Jellyfish are driving surfers and swimmers out of the water at the beach. Moon jellies, which have small and spiny tentacles that rub against people and cause the sting, started to appear in the ocean ...

The use of chemicals to disperse oil after the Deepwater Horizon explosion in 2010 caused moon jellyfish to lose their purplish hue, change shape and die, according to a new study from Florida ...

Along the Central Florida coast, a spike in moon jellyfish stings have kicked off summer in a painful way. Lifeguards treated 107 jellyfish stings Saturday, and a staggering 523 on Sunday. Add to that ...

If you've walked along a beach or a dock recently, chances are you've seen a moon jellyfish pulsing through the water or washed up on a shoreline. The animals, named for their circular shape that ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A launch from SpaceX early Wednesday morning produced a captivating sight for Florida residents to look at during their commutes. After a Falcon 9 launched 20 Starlink ...

The way Botrynema jellyfish is distributed across the ocean may reveal a previously unknown biogeographic barrier in the ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A 25-year-old man lost at sea was rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard Saturday off the coast of Florida. Charles Gregory was spotted an by HC-130 Hercules airplane aircrew sitting in ...

None of the incidents were life threatening, officials said. Hundreds and hundreds of central Florida beach-goers enjoying the sun and surf this week were faced with a very unpleasant shock. About ...