A new study in Cell reveals that species living miles beneath the ocean’s surface have independently evolved the same genetic ...

these jellyfish use a type of jet propulsion to follow the sunlight until they nearly reach the eastern shore—stopping just short of the shadows caused by lakeside trees. Sunlight is plentiful ...

The jellyfish is a useful model organism for studies to help understand early multicellular animals, due to the relative simplicity of the larva and their evolutionary position as an outgroup to ...