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 ...

Experts say Irukandji jellyfish are mostly distributed in the warm waters along the northern coasts of Australia – especially in the Coral Sea along Queensland - with some species occurring in parts ...

The launch of the first deep-sea manned vehicle is planned for later this year — it will put India in a select group of nations with the capability to send humans to these depths. Last week, China ...

They found increasing jellyfish populations in 62 per cent of the regions analyzed, including East Asia, the Black Sea, the Mediterranean, the Northeast U.S. Shelf, Hawaii, and Antarctica. "There has ...

Six people have died and 39 others were rescued after a viewing submarine sank off the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada. The local governor's office said that the six people who died in the ...

The vessel went down on Thursday after setting off from the harbour in the tourist promenade area in the coastal city of Hurghada. At least six people have died and nine have been injured after a ...

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) has worked for more than a decade to draw up regulations for a future deep-sea mining industry. Those efforts continued this week as negotiators from ...

But to measure them properly will require a colossal feat of engineering: the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, or DUNE for short. Shining anode plane assemblies dominate this panorama of the ...

Deep-sea ecosystems typically rely on nutrients ... One of the images released by the Schmidt Ocean Institute shows a "helmet jellyfish” which can be seen drifting with “tentacles splayed”.