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A close-up of a tiny translucent jellyfish against a black background Two fishers from Australia were recently airlifted to hospital after being stung by one of the most venomous jellyfish in the ...

Size really doesn't matter, after all — at least in the non-human animal kingdom. Tiny creatures may be more dangerous than the world's top predators, especially if they're difficult to spot. Case in ...

A teenage boy has been discharged from hospital following a run in with an Irukandji jellyfish on Great Keppel Island.

The key to predicting the presence of tiny, venomous and nearly invisible jellyfish may be blowing in the wind, new research finds. The discovery, linking the appearance of teeny-tiny jellies off the ...

ADELAIDE, Australia Ben Southall -- who won a contest to blog for six months about life on Australia's Hamilton Island to promote tourism -- wrote Tuesday that he was lucky to have survived his brush ...

ADELAIDE, Australia — Trouble struck paradise this week when a British man who has the “Best Job in the World” as the caretaker of a tropical Australian island was stung by a potentially lethal ...

As if there was not enough to worry about in Australia, it seems that the warming oceans are likely to cause the spread of a deadly jellyfish that has been reported to induce a sense of doom in those ...

Deadly, venomous jellyfish are lurking in the waters off the Gold Coast of Australia this week, ready to sting anyone who gets too close. A group called Surf Life Saving Queensland issued a warning ...