Relying on urban myths is the last thing you'd want to do when dealing with an extremely painful jellyfish sting. Most of the information out there on how to treat jellyfish stings might actually ...

Although a few kinds of jellyfish can cause life-threatening stings, mostly it just burns, swells, itches, and leaves tracks along your skin. Here's how you treat it Rinse your skin in salt water.

You’ve probably heard the suggestion to pee on a jellyfish sting to take away the pain. And you’ve likely wondered if it ...

Mucus from jellyfish that sit upside-down on the seafloor has blobs lined with stinging cells The stinging cells are coated on tiny mobile blobs called cassiosomes within the mucus that “zoom ...

meaning that if you sliced a jellyfish down the middle, the parts would be symmetrical, like the segments of an orange. These cnidarians are famous for their stinging abilities. The intensity of the ...

Even the very painful jellyfish sting (and its very embarrassing cure) became my first tale of travel misadventure, which I was excited to share with my siblings when I returned to Bogota.

Caption We all know the evils that come from a run-in with a jellyfish's tentacles. But thankfully, we can resort to peeing on a sting to make the pain go away -- or can we? Filmed at San ...

Some jellyfish species can regenerate body parts or revert to an earlier life stage, granting them potential biological ...

Some jellyfish stings are dangerous and can cause a severe reaction, requiring emergency first aid. Dr Janani Thirumurugan explains about how to treat and prevent Jellyfish stings. Listen to SBS ...

At the time, I didn't think my mom peeing on a jellyfish sting was so funny. Now, that disastrous trip is one of my favorite memories.