The biologist had just come from the first floor, where tanks held a colony of gelatinous comb jellies. The blob was bigger ...

Almost by chance, researchers in Norway found adult comb jellies reverse their development and become larva again when stressed by starvation. It helps them survive because larva eat less than the ...

One of the planet’s most notorious invasive species is a comb jelly, Mnemiopsis leidyi. A native of the east coast of North and South America, the comb jelly is capable of eating ten times its ...

Comb jellies, soft-bodied marine creatures that swim by beating rows of cilia, may once have had a hard skeleton. Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she started as an intern in 2009 ...

The fossil, an eight-armed swirl named Eoandromeda after the galaxy Andromeda, is believed by researchers to be the ancestor of modern comb jellies, which populate oceans worldwide and swim using rows ...

This brownish-orange comb jelly of the genus Beroe is likely one of the five undescribed species characterized by the team of researchers. Credit must be given to the creator.