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 ...
The comb jellyfish Mnemiopsis leidyi originates from the American east coast. It was introduced into the Black Sea in the early 1980s. As a result, anchovy stocks there declined drastically.
The warty comb jelly, Mnemiopsis leidyi, is a fascinating sea creature with a litany of weird biological traits, including regeneration. They can also de-age themselves physically into their larval ...
This indicated that the comb jellyfish might be capable of reverting back to a youthful, larval state under certain conditions. The researchers found that extreme stress seemed to trigger this ...
In recent decades jellyfish populations in some parts of the world have boomed. In the 1980s a comb jelly that’s known formally as Mnemiopsis leidyi and informally as the sea walnut showed up in ...