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 ...

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?

The 17 letters on the comb form seven words and belong to an early form of the alphabet used by the Canaanites. [Related: What ancient graves can teach us about the history of inequality.] ...

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.

An "incredibly rare" ancient comb made from human skull has been identified among thousands of artefacts recovered during archaeological excavations. The accessory, dubbed the Bar Hill Comb, was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Israeli archeologists have found an ancient comb dating back some 3,700 years ago and bearing what is likely the oldest known full sentence in Canaanite alphabetical script, according to an ...

A seven-word inscription discovered by accident on a 3,700-year-old lice comb is the oldest known sentence written in an alphabet, according to a new study.

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 ...