Scientists have revealed that the comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi, also known as the sea walnut, can undergo reverse development ...

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, also known as ctenophores, are a group of more than 100 species of gelatinous, blob-like creatures with small, comb-like tentacles. These alien-looking animals, ...

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.

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.

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 ...