Over the next few weeks, Rodriguez-Santiago helped Jokura combine multiple pairs of the comb jellies, scientifically known as Mnemiopsis leidyi, to see what happened. The findings of the investigation ...

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.

Comb jellies are found all around the world in coastal waters and the deep ocean. Though they look similar to jellyfish, they don’t sting and belong to a different phylum, Ctenophora, which is ...

There is evidence to suggest that the comb jellyfish was the first animal to appear on Earth some 700 million years ago. RLS Photo – stock.adobe.com ...

While studying comb jellies in a different tank, University of Bergen natural historian Joto J. Soto-Angel noticed that an adult ctenophore, also the species M. leidyi, had vanished from his tank ...

To test their theory, the investigators injured comb jellies by removing partial lobes from individual comb jellies, then put the animals together in close pairs. In nine of ten cases, the pairs of ...

Comb jellies just got weirder. The sea creatures, known to produce disco-light-like displays, belong to the first group to branch off from the common ancestor of all animals — and now they’ve ...

The fact that multiple comb jellies can merge when one is wounded, allowing the two to become one combined creature and heal from injuries. It’s a shocking discovery that has left scientists ...

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 ...