At Jellyfish Lake, you can swim with millions of harmless jellyfish. The incredible lake is in Palau, an island country to the southeast of the Philippines, and filmmaker Sarosh Jacob captured ...

With a baking hot summer just starting, millions of Americans have already begun flooding the nation’s beaches. They’ll face traffic jams, algae blooms, sunburn and a rising threat – painful ...

This remarkable underwater video was captured near the remote island of Palau when a man recorded his "surreal" swim through millions of jellyfish. He was able to do this safely only because the ...

Building biological systems from scratch traditionally involves copying the original, but simply mimicking an animal’s shape and muscle alignment isn't enough. In a new study published today (July 22) ...

Spring break is here and spring breakers may be looking to enjoy their vacation by spending time near Texas waters. As Texans ...

Even if they may appear harmless, jellyfish will surprise you with how quickly they sting — and this even includes dead ...

In a recent paper in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, researchers at Florida Atlantic University describe the process of building and testing five free-swimming soft robotic jellyfish. The paper ...

This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Moon jellies, which are found in shallow bays around the world, look like small, not entirely friendly ghosts.

Jellyfish are known for drifting to and fro at the whim of ocean currents—but not all species are so passive. The millions of golden jellyfish that pack Palau’s Jellyfish Lake spend much of ...

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 ...