Mild winter weather creates ideal conditions for these jelly-like creatures that travel by wind and wash ashore in spring.

Thousands of blue blobs blanketed Southern California beaches after winds carried them ashore. Velella velellas, or ...

The blobfish went viral with this photo ... since they spend a lot of time in a habitat “on the continental shelf to the deep sea,” says Matthew Davis, a professor of biological sciences ...

It has been a dramatic change of fortunes for the blobfish. Back in 2013, the gelatinous sea creature was declared the ...

Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute noticed the sea spider, the size of a dinner plate, about 2km beneath the icy surface waters of the South Sandwich Islands, a chain of volcanic islands ...

blobfish, JELL-O of the sea— Floats upon the bottom, lazy as can be... Two years ago the blobfish was voted the earth’s most hideous species in an online poll conducted by the British-based ...

Tiny, electric-blue blobs have been spotted on beaches across ... The “bizarre blue sea creatures” have also been spotted around the San Francisco Bay Area and on sandy stretches of shoreline ...

The blob’s warmer ocean water led to less mixing ... Marine Mammals: Whales, sea lions, and otters have suffered from food shortages and toxic algae exposure. Fisheries: Warmer waters have ...

"Sargassum provides many marine ecosystem benefits, including providing habitat for an array of animals such as crabs, shrimp, sea turtles, and fish," FWC writes. "It also serves as a primary ...