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 ...

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 ...

Comb jelliesare 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 ...

Comb jellies, believed to have existed for about 700 million years, are among the oldest animal species on Earth. However, they are not alone in their ability to reverse aging.

Reverse development, where some animals can turn back to earlier life stages instead of aging normally, has now been documented in the Atlantic comb jelly, Mnemiopsis leidyi, often known as the ...

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 ...

Comb jellies, or ctenophores, are marine invertebrates with squishy bodies propelled by hair-like cilia. They’re relatively simple creatures, although they do have muscles, nervous systems and ...

[Related: .] Comb jellies make up over 100 known species in the phylum ctenophora. These tiny, oval shaped marine invertebrates use eight rows of comb-like plates to move throughout the water.