They’re the bane of our summer days at the beach, inflicting painful stings on swimmers. But who knew bluebottles could look ...

The species superficially resembles a jellyfish, but is actually a siphonophore, an animal made up of a colony of organisms working together. Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) Faculty of ...

Although it appears to be a single entity, a siphonophore is actually a colony of tiny, genetically identical clones that have strung themselves together to work as a team. Marine biologist Stefan ...

Other finds included one of the deep sea's most bizarre and elusive creatures, the flying spaghetti monster, a nickname given to a rare species of siphonophore. These creatures are not just single ...

In an exciting discovery, scientists have documented the first-ever sighting of a rare siphonophore in False Bay, South Africa. If you gaze up to the skies over the Western Cape coastline ...

Nearly a dozen miles off the California coast on a foggy October morning, a crane lifts a boxy yellow robot off the deck of the research vessel Rachel Carson and lowers it into Monterey Bay’s choppy ...