Scientists often encounter things beyond human comprehension. When studying jellyfish and their remarkable healing abilities, a team of scientists dealt with this very concept. When a thriving adult ...

The fossil, an eight-armed swirl named Eoandromeda after the galaxy Andromeda, is believed by researchers to be the ancestor of modern comb jellies, which populate oceans worldwide and swim using rows ...

Comb jellies are gelatinous animals related to jellyfish with translucent bodies living in the depths of the sea waters worldwide. While regular jellyfish use the same opening to eat food and ...

We already knew comb jellies were pretty special ... while six out of the fifteen injured animals were the jelly equivalent ...

The ancient comb jellies also lacked the tentacles that are common in their modern counterparts. “This clade reveals a cryptic history and sheds new light on the early evolution of this basal animal ...

They found that animals subjected to lobectomy treatment ... How reverse development allows comb jellies to survive harsh conditions If we stick now with the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi, the ...

While observing animals in the laboratory, Soto-Angel realized that an adult comb jelly had disappeared from a tank. In its place, there was a larva. So, he set out to determine whether these ...

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. The immortal ...

The sea walnut (Mnemiopsis leidyi) is the third-known animal species, and the first-known comb jelly (Ctenophora), that can ...

Also known as ctenophores and considered one of the most ancient animal lineages, comb jellies possess the unique ability to revert to larval stages after reaching maturity. This was discovered in ...