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.

Lyman explained that ctenophores are great for teasing apart this problem of how marine organisms adapt to extreme pressure environments because there are multiple ctenophore species that live at the ...

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.

So ctenophores’ possession of a simple nervous system has been of particular interest to scientists interested in how such systems evolved.

Injured comb jellies can fuse into a single organism Ctenophores merge with neighbors at wound sites, making animals with duplicate parts.

Strange sea creatures called ctenophores have a fused nerve net where scientists expected to see synapses. Did they evolve their nervous system separately from other animals?

In the ocean’s depths, seawater’s punishing weight would crush most surface-dwelling species to a pulp. So how do ctenophores—squishy, see-through creatures with bodies the consistency of ...

A new article published in Science suggests fundamental differences of nerve net architecture that challenges our previous understanding on the evolution of nervous systems and how they transmit ...

They are known to eat other ctenophores and salps, while fish, turtles, marine mammals, and more dine on comb jellies. Comb jellies also appear to be able to fuse together.

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