As you might imagine, you can't just grab extra-soft sea creatures like jellyfish or octopuses when you want to study them. Not if you want them to remain intact, anyway. Thankfully, researchers ...

The dog days of summer are anything but dull around here. Your Close Encounters were overflowing this week, not only in numbers but also in content Unusual animals, odd bugs and squishy sea creatur… ...

But pinning down the exact origin of these squishy sea creatures, which are some of the earliest complex animals, is difficult. They rarely show up in the fossil record because jellyfish are 95 ...