Comb jellies show fusion behavior for healing. Credit: Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Researchers have discovered that deep sea comb jellies exhibit unique fusion behavior after they have been injured. This ...

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Researchers found that two individuals of a type of comb jellyfish can fuse and become one with a shared nervous system and digestive system, which has implications for animal regeneration and ...

For sea walnuts, this is a bit harder. Mnemiopsis leidyi, also known as sea walnuts, comb jellies or ctenophores, are a type of animal similar to jellyfish that eat plankton and have translucent ...

The next day, they “noticed an atypically large individual with two aboral ends and two apical organs,” researchers said. Aboral ends, or rear ends, are the tops of the jellies opposite the mouths, ...

The Tsavo man-eaters terrorized railroad workers in British East Africa in the 19th century, but their tastes went well ...