Sentences with phrase «comb jellyfish»

Biologists have now been able to prove for the first time that comb jellyfish can switch between two completely different self - healing processes depending on the environmental conditions.

A team of biologists from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the University of Florida has now been able to demonstrate with the comb jellyfish Mnemiopsis leidyi that, at least in this type of jellyfish, the mechanism of regeneration can be changed depending on the environmental conditions.

«Apparently, the comb jellyfish larvae are able to activate two fundamentally different regeneration processes, depending on the external circumstances,» explains Dr. Javidpour, «if the circumstances are not good enough for a complete cure, then at least it can save their own survival with a simpler process.»

But the risk of a new zebra mussel or comb jellyfish or disease infestation is ever present.

Instead, Dunn identified the more complex comb jellyfish — a carnivorous ocean drifter — as the earliest to diverge from the animal family tree.

A Day Away Kayak Tours (321-268-2655) offers tours of Merritt Island year - round, including night trips to see bioluminescent marine organisms that light up the waters (plankton in summer, comb jellyfish in winter).

Search beneath the waves of Nantucket Sound for fascinating marine life including dogfish sharks, black sea bass, scup, spider crabs, squid, calico crabs, pipefish, and glowing comb jellyfish.

Not exact matches

Comb jellies, jellyfish, sea sponges, and a few other creatures all were thought to lack an anus, which meant they had to eat and defecate through a single hole.

According to this view, early sponges sit at the base of the animal tree of life, which then forks into four other groups: comb jellies, jellyfish, primitive multicellular animals called placazoa, and another group of early symmetrical animals that led to worms, insects, and ultimately us (bilaterians).

Comb - jellyfish larvae that lived in a nutrient - rich environment were able to completely restore their bodies.

They belong somewhere in the lowest branches of the animal evolutionary tree, perhaps related to jellyfish or another primitive group called the comb jellies.

But whether it is a stingless jellyfish, a comb jelly or even part of a group of enigmatic organisms that most researchers think went extinct half a billion years ago remains up for debate.

Comb jellies don't have any stinging cells, and are not technically jellyfish — corals and anemones are more closely related to jellyfish than these creatures are, even though these look similar.

In the range between the surface and 1,500 meters, for instance, jellyfish and comb jellies were the primary light - up animals.