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Burkhardt was coauthor of another October report on M. leidyi, published in the journal PNAS, showing that the jelly is able to develop backward, reverting to an earlier life stage following stress.

The comb jelly, one of the oldest animals on Earth, can fuse with another ... But these animals “bypass that sensory rejection to then potentially have an even better chance of survival,” she ...