when they spied a ctenophore, or comb jelly—a gelatinous sea creature that resembles a jellyfish—with two butts. The union was extensive, Kei Jokura, a biologist at University of Exeter and ...

Researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on October 7 have made the surprising discovery that one species of comb jelly (Mnemiopsis leidyi) can fuse, such that two ...

The researchers discovered the merging of the two creatures when they spotted an abnormally large comb jelly in a tank. They also noticed that it had some very atypical organs, including two rare ...

Comb jelly in seawater tank (Jokura et al., Current Biology (2024)) They are among some of the earliest animal groups to emerge on Earth with unique nervous systems and strange features compared ...

Researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on October 7 have made the surprising discovery that one species of comb jelly (Mnemiopsis leidyi) can fuse, such that two individuals readily ...

Researchers found that two individuals of a type of comb jelly can fuse and become one with a shared nervous system and digestive system — which... A little more than a year ago, while biologist ...

But there’s something that makes them even weirder. When a comb jelly is injured, it can regenerate at an amazing rate. But it can also attach a body part of another injured comb jelly and ...

Jokura says it’s possible that the first nervous system to ever evolve on Earth was inside an ancient comb jelly — a distant ancestor of the ones he was scooping out of the water. Sponsor ...

Researchers spotted an unusually large individual in the tank with atypical organs. The comb jelly seemed to have two rare-end lobes and two of a sensory structure called an apical organ ...

For one species of comb jelly, survival from injury can come down to numbers. Two Mnemiopsis leidyi– aka the sea walnut–can fuse together and turn into one after an injury.