Giant phantom jelly sightings are extremely rare, but recent footage shows this extraordinary deep-sea jellyfish in all its glory.

Like a scene out of a Jules Verne novel, scientists from Schmidt Ocean Institute recently encountered a giant phantom jelly (Stygiomedusa gigantea). The enormous deep-sea jellyfish was spotted about ...

Eerie yet fascinating footage shows the 10-metre-long sea creature gently pulsing and swirling its way through the dark ...

Just about 20% of the total ocean has been explored, with large portions (especially in the deep sea) entirely unmapped. What if the key to exploring them isn’t a billion-dollar submarine, but a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the Dabiri Lab, researchers are embedding microelectric controllers into jellyfish, creating "biohybrid" devices. For years, ...

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In a towering aquarium in a darkened laboratory, moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) hover as if floating in space. The glow of neon lights illuminates their translucent, bell-shaped bodies as they expand ...

Why it matters: The ocean is Earth's largest climate regulator, but its vast size makes it notoriously difficult (and expensive) to study. Biohybrid technology, which merges living organisms with ...

In a dark laboratory at the University of Colorado Boulder, soft pulses of light dance across the surface of a large aquarium. Inside, moon jellyfish move in slow, hypnotic patterns. Their clear, bell ...

Jellyfish infestations are troubling tourists and scientists alike. A diver attaches a sensor to a large Echizen jellyfish, Oct. 4, 2005 off the coast of Komatsu in Ishikawa prefecture, Japan. Yomiuri ...