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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Warty Comb jellyfish Mnemiopsis leidyi Getty Images/Oxford Scientific “While maintaining a population of M. leidyi in a seawater ...

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, ...

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 ...

The theory of evolution shows that all life stems from a single root and that we are related, more or less distantly, to every other living thing on Earth. Our closest ancestors, as Charles Darwin ...

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 ...

Comb jellies—known to scientists as ctenophores (pronounced "teen-oh-fours")—mesmerize with their beauty, but these captivating creatures remain poorly studied due to their delicate nature. MBARI ...

“While maintaining a population of M. leidyi in a seawater tank, we noticed an atypically large individual with two aboral ends [referring to the area farthest from the mouth] and two apical organs ...