To confirm that these structures help comb jellies live at crushing depths, the researchers created E. coli bacteria that made their cell walls with the plasmalogens found in deep-sea comb jellies.

They call this adaptation “homeocurvature,” since the curve-forming shape of the lipids has adapted to the comb jelly’s unique deep-sea habitat. Here, their cone-shaped lipids have evolved ...

Bizarre deep-sea creatures known as comb jellies can fuse together when they are injured, creating a single massive individual with permanently combined nervous systems and stomachs, a new study ...

They’re called comb jellies though they’re not jellyfish. And they are beautiful when exposed to the light. But where some of them live, 8,000 meters beneath the sea, there is no light and ...

A bizarre jelly creature that lives in the deep sea has a belly that glows blood-red, which helps it to avoid predators. The aptly named bloody-belly comb jelly (Lampocteis cruentiventer) has been ...

Injured Deep-Sea Jellies Fuse Bodies Together In Animal Kingdom First. ... Now, the team at MBL wants to research other comb jellies' ability to recognize the self from the nonself.

A multi-institutional team that includes researchers from the University of Delaware, University of California San Diego and Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), among others, published a ...

The deep-sea comb jellies had membrane lipids that, at our standard atmospheric pressure, have a curvier shape than those in surface cell membranes.

[Related: Comb jellies won’t give into the extreme pressures of deep-sea life.] Comb jellies make up over 100 known species in the phylum ctenophora. These tiny, ...

Haddock, Budin and Winnikoff started by collecting comb jellies from different parts of the ocean. In scuba gear, Winnikoff carefully coaxed comb jellies from Monterey Bay’s surface waters into jars.

To confirm that these structures help comb jellies live at crushing depths, the researchers created E. coli bacteria that made their cell walls with the plasmalogens found in deep-sea comb jellies.

Bizarre deep-sea creatures known as comb jellies can fuse together when they are injured, creating a single massive individual with permanently combined nervous systems and stomachs, a new study ...