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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

“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 ...

To learn whether sponges or ctenophores were the earliest branch of animals, the new study relied on an unlikely feature: the organization of genes into chromosomes.

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.

Mnemiopsis leidyi, also known as sea walnuts, comb jellies or ctenophores, are a type of animal similar to jellyfish that eat plankton and have translucent, bell-shaped bodies, according to a case ...

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