Ctenophores’ unique features, including their distinct nerve and muscle systems, suggest these traits may have evolved independently in early animal lineages.

Do ctenophores have the same homeoviscous adaptation to compensate for extreme pressure? Looking to lipids. These cold adaptations often come down to lipids–or fats.

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 ...

Comb jellies, technically known as ctenophores, are one of the weirdest creatures on Earth. They appeared in the seas over half a billion years ago and have maintained to the present day the comb ...

If ctenophores arose first, it “implies that either sponges have lost a massive number of features, or that the ctenophores effectively evolved them all independently,” says Graham Budd, a ...

“We know that comb jellies (aka: ctenophores) are sentient in that they can sense their surroundings to find food and change the direction of their swimming if they bump into something,” study ...

Ctenophores are capable of regenerating an entirely new animal from a small chunk of flesh. "Maybe this is one of the secrets to their incredible ability for regeneration," Babonis said.

Ctenophores, also called comb jellies, are ghostly-looking bags of goo whose crystalline combs—structures they use like tiny oars to move through water—refract light into rainbows.

“In contrast, ctenophores resembled the non-animals. The simplest explanation is that ctenophores branched off before the rearrangements occurred.” Resolving this long-standing question will help shed ...

The first is a study from the journal Current Biology found that ctenophores, a phylum of aquatic invertebrates better known as comb jellies, can successfully fuse together after being injured.

Ctenophores’ unique features, including their distinct nerve and muscle systems, suggest these traits may have evolved independently in early animal lineages.