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 ...

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 ...

Afterward, from 1991 to 1999, bloody-belly comb jelly underwent a detailed study at MBRI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute), during which additional specimens were collected at a depth of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have made the surprising discovery that one species of comb jelly (Mnemiopsis leidyi) can fuse, such that two individuals readily turn into one following an injury. Afterwards ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Primitive animals called comb jellies can fuse their bodies and nervous systems together. Comb jellies split from the ancestors of all other living animals about 700 million years ago and have ...

The fused comb jellies had some individual movements for the first hour post-blending, but within two hours 95 per cent of ...