A collaborative team of Japanese and Brazilian scientists has identified a new species of jellyfish with distinctive features, aptly named the St. George’s Cross Medusa (Santjordia pagesi or S.

Larvae mature into polyps, which will then bud off and mature into young jellyfish.' An adult jellyfish is known as a medusa. Jellyfish belong to a group called Cnidaria, which also includes sea ...

Immortality might seem like a fairy tale, but some species are renowned for cheating death, and one marine animal has ...

Most are free-swimming species with the characteristic bell-shaped body, also called a medusa. Cubozoans are more commonly known as box jellyfish. They differ from scyphozoan jellyfish because of ...

A stable isotope analysis revealed that the jellyfish's medusa stage competes with native predators such as Chaoborus larvae and juvenile fish, indicating that their presence could disrupt local ...