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 ...

Comb jellies (Mnemiopsis leidyi) are a type of stingless jellyfish that consume other jellyfish and fish larvae. They are native to the western Atlantic Ocean, but they have spread widely and are ...

Besides their bodies, comb jellies, scientifically known as Mnemiopsis leidyi, also fuse their nervous and digestive systems, research found. Late one summer night in 2023, Kei Jokura entered the ...

Researchers knew something strange was afoot at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., when they spied a ctenophore, or comb jelly—a gelatinous sea creature that resembles a ...

Comb jellies, technically known as ctenophores, are one of the weirdest creatures on Earth. They appeared in the seas over half a billion years ago and have maintained to the present day the comb-like ...

Researchers found that two individuals of a type of comb jelly can fuse and become one with a shared nervous system and digestive system. It has implications for animal regeneration and immune systems ...

“While maintaining a population of M. leidyi in a seawater tank, we noticed an atypically large individual with two aboral ends [referring to the area farthest from the mouth] and two apical organs ...

Researchers have made the surprising discovery that one species of comb jelly (Mnemiopsis leidyi) can fuse, such that two individuals readily turn into one following an injury. Afterwards, they ...

A new paper published in Current Biology has revealed a startling new fact about comb jellies that scientists weren't expecting. That surprise? The fact that multiple comb jellies can merge when one ...

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(CNN) — Late one summer night in 2023, Kei Jokura entered the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, excitedly carrying a blob in a beaker. The biologist had just come from the ...