Jellyfish and sea anemones are curious creatures: these organisms evolved without a brain and, as scientists discovered only ...

Experts found that these sea creatures sleep for at least 8 hours a day, a duration often considered ideal for human sleep.

A new study from the multidisciplinary brain research center at Bar-Ilan University found that jellyfish and sea anemones ...

Sleep may have evolved to help reduce DNA damage in nerve cells long before they became centralized in the brain, a study ...

We know that some animals are bilaterian—meaning they display bilateral symmetry—while others are not, but nature is rarely ...

There are thousands of different species of sea anemones in the ocean with some living as far deep as 32,000 feet. Anemones are marine invertebrates that are closely related to jellyfish. This ...

It turns out sleeping isn’t just about resting your eyes, as a new study found that even ancient creatures without eyes — or ...

A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...

Thousands of feet deep in the South Pacific Ocean, a pair of scientists piloted a submersible through the dark waters and scanned the seafloor. Some pale creatures with dozens of tentacles caught ...

Scientists say sea monster is a new kind of animal. This unidentified specimen belonging within Relicanthidae is a sea creature that was previously thought to be a giant sea anemone (order Actiniaria) ...