“The extent and the rapidity of that integration is pretty shocking,” says Steven Haddock, a marine biologist who studies ctenophores (gelatinous sea animals that resemble jellyfish) at the ...

So our study shows that ctenophores, or comb jellies, also have this capacity to reverse develop ... They are some sort of ambush predators, if you want to see it that way. And then we have the lobate ...

Ctenophores are considered to be important predators in coastal waters and hence components of planktonic ecosystems. Credit: Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research. It all started as a ...

Comb jellies, also known as ctenophores, are fascinating marine creatures that often get mistaken for ... Under conditions of stress, such as starvation and physical injury, the Mnemiopsis displayed ...

A recent study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, however, has revealed a new member of this exclusive club with extraordinary abilities: the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi, ...