Jellyfish

ROME | Forget streets brightly lit with quaint lanterns and hordes of tourists, Rome's Chinatown is an undefined crisscrossing of roads running from the Termini train station to the Esquiline Hill, ripe with cheap but trendy clothing, jewelry and shoes. Read More

This is the first time such an event has ever been documented. Read More

With thousands of stinging cells that can emit deadly venom from tentacles that can reach ten feet in length, the 50 or so species of box jellyfish have long been of interest to scientists and to the public. Read More

A blood-orange blob the size of a small refrigerator emerged from the dark waters, its venomous tentacles trapped in a fishing net. Read More

A blood-orange blob the size of a small refrigerator emerged from the dark waters, its venomous tentacles trapped in a fishing net. Read More

The creatures are as weird and outlandish as the creations in a Dr. Seuss book: tentacled transparent sea cucumbers, primitive "dumbos that flap ear-like fins, and tubeworms that feed on oil deposits. The census also records the familiar dwellers of the abyss: squids, hermit crabs, and jellyfish. Read More

A rare 'Dumbo' octopod - a creature named as such because it flaps fins that look like ears of the cartoon flying elephant - is seen in the depths of the ocean. Read More