To test whether this comb jelly was actually two individuals ... squashing together their outer skin and digestive system fuse to form an opening— essentially creating a "disappearing anus ...

The presence of microplastics has been found in their digestive systems, suggesting that our waste is infiltrating their environment. Given that ctenophores, such as the bloody-belly comb jelly ...

The biologist had just come from the first floor, where tanks held a colony of gelatinous comb jellies ... only could two jellies fuse their bodies, but their nervous and digestive systems ...

They were a pair of ctenophores, or comb jellies (Mnemiopsis ... The team also found that while the jellies used one mouth to feed, they had two distinct digestive tracts and excreted at different ...

Rodriguez-Santiago helped Jokura combine multiple pairs of the comb jellies, scientifically known as Mnemiopsis leidyi, to see what happened. The findings of the investigation led by Jokura, published ...