Large blooms of moon jellyfish are being seen from the River Derwent to halfway up Tasmania's east coast. A leading marine scientist has said "an incredible sequence of events" has led to the ...

A mass of thousands of jellyfish at Hobart's waterfront dock may look like a natural phenomenon, but a leading scientist has warned its presence indicates something awry in the marine habitat.

In 2006, beaches in Italy and Spain were closed because of a bloom of jellyfish known as mauve stingers. In 2013 a Swedish nuclear plant temporarily shut down because moon jellies were blocking ...

“Jellyfish are gelatinous and jelly-like,” explains Miranda Lowe CBE, our Principal Curator of Crustacea and Cnidaria. “They have a curved, bell-shaped body with tentacles hanging down from the ...

The only location which did have some was Bardsey Island, where there was an abundance of moon jellyfish around the landing slipway. Little is known about jellyfish off the coast of Wales but ...

The first-of-its-kind aquarium at any SeaWorld park promises to be an Instagram-worthy photo spot with a jellyfish-filled ...

WATCH HERE >> Local Tasmanian biologist and expert on marine ecosystems Lisa Gershwin said witnessing the moon jellyfish combined with a bloom of bioluminescent algae, noctiluca scintillans ...