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 ...

The fusion of comb jellies into a single organism was unexpectedly swift, lead study author Kei Jokura said. Cut jellies' muscular contractions were independent of each other 50 to 60 minutes ...

In the 1930s, at the very same research station, marine biologist B. R. Coonfield performed experiments on comb jellies that would make Frankenstein author Mary Shelley shudder.

Comb jellies have oval-shaped transparent bodies, with four rows of 'combs' that run along the body vertically and glow blue-green when disturbed. They look similar to jellyfish, ...

New research hints that comb jelly may be Earth's oldest animal By Simrin Singh May 18, 2023 / 11:13 PM EDT / CBS News ...

A scientist has stumbled upon a creature with a “transient anus” that appears only when it is needed, before vanishing completely. The warty comb jelly, or sea walnut, looks a lot like a ...

The “jellyfish” was actually a comb jelly, one of the prettiest and most delicate marine creatures that we see in the ocean and the St. Johns River estuary. They are about the size of a walnut ...

Future comb jelly research. What Rodriguez-Santiago finds most interesting about the study is the way it calls into question what she thought of as “pretty hard boundaries” between self and other.

The fusion of comb jellies into a single organism was unexpectedly swift, lead study author Kei Jokura said. Cut jellies' muscular contractions were independent of each other 50 to 60 minutes ...

Future comb jelly research. What Rodriguez-Santiago finds most interesting about the study is the way it calls into question what she thought of as “pretty hard boundaries” between self and other.