In a tank of comb jellies in the lab, the team one day noticed a particularly big and misshapen individual. But weirdly, it seemed to have two apical organs – a kind of sensory structure – instead of ...

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 ...

Armed with the ability to accept all cells as its own, comb jellies can merge with others to survive. Here’s how it works. On a quiet summer day at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, ...

The bizarre species came to the Adriatic accidentally in the ballast water of cargo ships. It is devastating the Italian city ...

A little more than a year ago, while biologist Kei Jokura was in Woods Hole, Mass., he routinely walked down to the water, scanning for comb jellies. "They look like a jellyfish," he says, "but ...

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Venice exists in symbiosis with its surrounding brackish waters, and their health is also becoming increasingly fragile. View ...

A new paper published in Current Biology has revealed a startling new fact about comb jellies that scientists weren't expecting. That surprise? The fact that multiple comb jellies can merge when one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Warty Comb jellyfish Mnemiopsis leidyi Getty Images/Oxford Scientific “While maintaining a population of M. leidyi in a seawater ...

Comb jellies, the delicate bells that pulse their iridescent bodies through the ocean, are some of the strangest creatures on Earth. “They are the aliens of the sea,” said Leonid Moroz, a ...