Travelers also face certain risks, including threats from wild animals. Some representatives of the fauna can be deadly, and ...

The infamous box jellyfish developed its frighteningly powerful ... containing toxins that attack the heart, nervous system, and skin cells. It is so overpoweringly painful, human victims have ...

Situations like these led to a spate of reports that jellyfish were taking over the seas. One website warned of the “attack of the blob.” Another predicted “goomageddon.” But scientists ...

Jellyfish have survived for over 500 million years, making them more ancient than the dinosaurs. Today these otherworldly creatures can be found around the world, from coastal shallows to the ocean ...

A box jellyfish advisory has been issued for Waikiki and Ala Moana beaches, in whose waters the stinging invertebrates have been spotted, the City and County of Honolulu announced this morning. A ...

Although the bloody jelly resembles a jellyfish, it is, in fact, a ctenophore, or comb jelly. These organisms differ from jellyfish because they lack nematocysts, the characteristic stinging cells ...

The Portuguese Man o’ War - It has a gas-filled float that keeps it on the water’s surface, and long, stinging tentacles that ...