The Monterey Bay Aquarium, in an effort to help the world take it a bit easier in the midst of a pandemic, is hosting something it calls “Morning MeditOcean” with the help of its tanks full of ...

Stuck at home, I find myself thinking about places I'd like to be: a friend's house, a bar, a movie theater. One of my favorite places in the world is the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Luckily, the team ...

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 the ...

The oldest examples of swimming jellyfish, which lived in Earth’s oceans 505 million years ago, have been discovered high within the Canadian Rockies. Researchers found 182 fossils encased within the ...

Royal Ontario Museum announces the oldest swimming jellyfish in the fossil record with the newly named Burgessomedusa phasmiformis. This 505-million-year-old swimming jellyfish from the Burgess Shale ...

Whether spotted pulsing under the waves or stranded on a sandy shore, jellyfish are a common sight on a trip to the beach. The soft-bodied animals are also a connection to the ancient past. Now, ...

The Canadian Rocky Mountains offer more than scenic views: The mountains have been hiding fossils of an ancient jellyfish species. Researchers analyzed 182 fossils that were found in the middle ...

Jellyfish are an ancient and successful group of animals. An in-depth look at the genome of the moon jelly, Aurelia aurita, shows that it uses a common set of genes to transition between polyp and ...

“Although jellyfish and their relatives are thought to be one of the earliest animal groups to have evolved, they have been remarkably hard to pin down in the Cambrian fossil record. This discovery ...