Shimmering sea creatures called comb jellies have an astonishing ability: if injured, two can merge into one, without showing the kind of tissue rejection reaction seen in other animals. What’s ...

Two comb jellies merge to form one creature whose formerly separate nervous systems react in sync to stimuli. Mariana Rodriguez-Santiago ( CC BY-SA ) With 21st-century tools, Jokura and his team ...

Spineless awareness: Comb jellies can fuse and reverse age, new research reveals If simple organisms like comb jellies can form a single new being, what does that say about sentience?

Scientists “Astonished” To Discover Two Comb Jellies Can Fuse To Form One Individual. A chance observation has led to an astonishing discovery for a group of scientists studying the comb jelly ...

The sea walnut, a type of comb jelly that has become invasive in parts of Europe and Asia, can transform from a sexually mature adult back into its larval form when times are tough.

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 ...

Shimmering sea creatures called comb jellies have an astonishing ability: if injured, two can merge into one, without showing the kind of tissue rejection reaction seen in other animals. What’s ...