A new study of comb jellies has revealed that their nervous system is more complex than previously thought. What’s more, this sheds a whole new light on how nervous systems evolved. Did nervous ...

Armed with the ability to accept all cells as its own, comb jellies can merge with others to survive. Here’s how it works. On a quiet summer day at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. During a dive off the coast of Southern California in 1979, ...

All animals are related to each other, but comb jellies — a marine invertebrate found in oceans around the world — are the most distantly related to all other animals, shows a new study in Nature.

Were sponges or comb jellies the first to split from the animal family tree? A new approach at settling this question, which is critical to understanding the evolution of animals, points strongly to ...

Researchers at the Michael Sars Centre at the University of Bergen have produced the first complete 3D reconstruction of the comb jelly’s aboral organ, a small sensory structure long dismissed as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study using advanced microscopy revealed that the comb jelly’s aboral organ contains about 900 cells across 17 different ...