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 have discovered, by accident, that warty comb jellyfish can fuse together when injured to form a single organism. After capturing a bunch of these so-called “sea walnuts” from the western ...

The scientists suspected that this one was actually two, that had somehow fused together after being injured. To investigate, they removed part of the lobes from multiple comb jellies, and placed them ...

A sea creature fuses with a pal to survive when it gets injured, reveals new research. Two comb jellies quickly turn into one following trauma, say scientists. They rapidly "synchronize" their muscle ...

Mother nature truly is remarkable when you look closely enough, and a team of researchers has stumbled across another example of that as explained in a recently published study in the journal Current ...

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