Almost by chance, researchers in Norway found adult comb jellies reverse their development and become larva again when stressed by starvation. It helps them survive because larva eat less than the ...

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 ...

This brownish-orange comb jelly of the genus Beroe is likely one of the five undescribed species characterized by the team of researchers. Credit must be given to the creator.

Some develop into tentacles, for example; others become reproductive organs. Comb jellies may be the most ancient living animal. They have a nervous system and—this shocked specialists—two ...

Where did their adult jellyfish go, and how did an infant jelly come to be? This is the unfathomable story of comb jellyfish and how they can age in reverse. This is what their regenerative ...

Part of the reason for the debate was the lack of a whole genome sequence from a comb jelly. “The major early animal lineages had all been represented by at least one species with a sequenced genome ...

For example, this picture of a Diplulmaris antarctica jellyfish shows it feeds on comb jellies, with a Beroe present in its stomach, whereas numerous hyperiid amphipods (small parasitic ...