Observing marine life often helps explain what’s happening in the atmosphere. This April, due to persistent gentle and variable winds, our beaches have been inundated with countless velella velella — ...

The shores of Santa Barbara and Ventura counties have once again become the final resting place for scores of Velella velella ...

This bag shape serves a purpose though, as the jelly’s delicate, umbrella-like structure allows it to move gracefully in the ...

An octopus rests on the seafloor 3,700 feet deep in the Bellingshausen Sea off Antarctica ... This giant phantom jellyfish jellyfish can grow to a massive size: the bell (the umbrella-like ...