A new jellyfish-inspired soft robot can move through water at record speeds while carrying ...

An artistic reconstruction shows a group of Burgessomedusa phasmiformis swimming in the Cambrian sea. (Illustration by Christian McCall) (CN) — Researchers in Canada have discovered the oldest ...

Burgessomedusa unambiguously shows that large, swimming jellyfish with a typical saucer or bell-shaped body had already evolved more than 500 million years ago. Burgessomedusa fossils are ...

The Canadian Rocky Mountains offer more than scenic views: The mountains have been hiding fossils of an ancient jellyfish species. Researchers analyzed 182 fossils that were found in the middle ...

University of Colorado Boulder Professor Nicole Xu is developing biohybrid robotic jellyfish by integrating tiny microelectronic systems into the live animals. Xu has about 15 to 20 moon jellyfish in ...

A cyborg jellyfish equipped with a swimming cap and an electric propulsion system can swim at four times its natural speed, and could be used for deep-sea exploration. John Dabiri at the California ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For more than 500 million years – well before dinosaurs ever thought of existing – jellyfish have floated through the world’s ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...