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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 ...

The comb jelly, one of the oldest animals on Earth, can fuse with another By Amanda Schupak, CNN 5 minute read Updated 9:46 AM EST, Fri January 3, 2025 Link Copied! Follow: ...

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 ...

“We know that comb jellies (aka: ctenophores) are sentient in that they can sense their surroundings to find food and change the direction of their swimming if they bump into something,” study ...

Researchers have now discovered that when a comb jelly suffers an injury, it can fuse with another comb jelly to create one individual. The two animals completely come together, synchronizing muscle ...

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 ...

For one species of comb jelly, survival from injury can come down to numbers.Two Mnemiopsis leidyi– aka the sea walnut–can fuse together and turn into one after an injury. These bioluminescent ...