jellyfish

This is what you need to know about the mauve stinger jellyfish that are all over our beaches in New Jersey.

Species range from the clinging jellyfish that deliver a "pretty powerful" sting, to Portuguese man o' war whose bite is "definitely serious."

A visitor to Cape May Beach captured an amazing photo of a huge jellyfish that had washed ashore. We know they're stings can be scary, but this jellyfish is a thing of beauty.

Jersey environmental officials issue a warning to swimmers in Monmouth and Ocean Counties after clinging jellyfish have begun populating.

Between May and October each year the Barnegat Bay Partnership (on the heels of their State of the Bay Report release), samples with a 50-foot seine net at numerous parts of Barnegat Bay looking for juvenile fish. Officials have come across a variety of estuarine fish since 2012, but among them four are jellyfish species of which certain types have a potent and harmful sting.

Long Beach Island community lifeguards discovered and removed a dangerous Portuguese man o’war jellyfish creature that washed ashore Sunday morning, according to shorebeat.com.