Learn how the comb jelly is taking over the Mediterranean, threatening local marine life and expected to only worsen with a ...

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 bioluminescent ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The bottom of Earth’s oceans may as well be another planet. The ...

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 ...

They’re called comb jellies though they’re not jellyfish. And they are beautiful when exposed to the light. But where some of them live, 8,000 meters beneath the sea, there is no light and they have ...

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

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 individuals ...

For more than a century, most evidence suggested that sponges, immobile filter-feeders that lack muscles, neurons and other ...

Mother nature truly is remarkable when you look closely enough, and a team of researchers has stumbled across another example of that as explained in a recently published study in the journal Current ...

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

The jellies appear to combine their stomachs and nervous systems in a form of fusion not seen in any other species. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. For one species of comb jelly, survival from injury can come down ...