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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

While regular jellyfish use the same opening to eat food and release waste, comb jellies have an anal pore to eject digested food. Comb jelly in seawater tank ( Jokura et al., Current Biology (2024) ) ...

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

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 ...

Comb jellies are one of the oldest lineages of animals, which means the absence of allorecognition in sea walnuts might hold clues for how the trait evolved (SN: 12/12/13).

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.

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.