On an expedition to South America, one diver experiences a rare encounter with a brand-new species of comb jelly—the pinnate ...

Comb jellies are gelatinous animals related to jellyfish with translucent bodies living in the depths of the sea waters worldwide. While regular jellyfish use the same opening to eat food and ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A new paper published in Current Biology has revealed a startling new fact about comb ...

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. These ...

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 ...

Comb jellies, technically known as ctenophores, are one of the weirdest creatures on Earth. They appeared in the seas over half a billion years ago and have maintained to the present day the comb ...

It took just two hours for the animals to fuse and behave like a single creature. They swam by coordinating their contractions, suggesting that their nervous systems had merged. When Dr. Jokura and ...

he routinely walked down to the water, scanning for comb jellies. “They look like a jellyfish,” he says, “but they’re completely different.” It’s a blob the size of a silver dollar ...

He'd go down to the pier or the dock and gaze into the water, scanning for comb jellies. KEI JOKURA: Look like jellyfish but completely different. DANIEL: It's a blobby thing, the size of a silver ...