This video explores the Venus girdle, a comb jelly known for its stunning rainbow shimmer deep beneath the ocean’s surface. Viewers learn how tiny rows of beating cilia create waves of shifting color ...

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(CNN) — Late one summer night in 2023, Kei Jokura entered the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, excitedly carrying a blob in a beaker. The biologist had just come from the ...

(CNN) — Late one summer night in 2023, Kei Jokura entered the marine biology lab at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts excitedly carrying a blob in a beaker. The biologist had just ...

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, ...

In a strange episode in the animal kingdom, a captive marine animal merged with another of its kind to become a single individual. The organisms that merged are comb jellies, translucent invertebrates ...