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The team also collected other comb jelly species floating at low pressures near the ocean surface.
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science.org, 3 July 2024
To confirm that these structures help comb jellies live at crushing depths, the researchers created E. coli bacteria that made their cell walls with the plasmalogens found in deep-sea comb jellies.
—Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2024
But there’s a downside: comb jellies adapted to life in the deep need that high pressure to keep their membranes intact.
—Elizabeth Anne Brown, Scientific American, 27 June 2024
Unlike true jellyfish, comb jellies glide through the water, propelled by rows of fused, hair-like cilia called combs.
—Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024
Again, these groups are apparently more closely related to us than comb jellies, which have nerve nets and muscle cells.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 May 2023
Baby corals billow beneath the waves before attaching to something solid; baby comb jellies burst into being in the open ocean; and baby turtles wriggle their way through the sandy shores.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
Or the comb jellies, which move themselves around by spinning lots of thread-like cilia.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 May 2023
The fossils from Utah and China, Lieberman says, are definitely jellyfish and not the comb jellies the new paper suggests.
—Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Aug. 2023
science.org, 3 July 2024
To confirm that these structures help comb jellies live at crushing depths, the researchers created E. coli bacteria that made their cell walls with the plasmalogens found in deep-sea comb jellies.
—Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2024
But there’s a downside: comb jellies adapted to life in the deep need that high pressure to keep their membranes intact.
—Elizabeth Anne Brown, Scientific American, 27 June 2024
Unlike true jellyfish, comb jellies glide through the water, propelled by rows of fused, hair-like cilia called combs.
—Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024
Again, these groups are apparently more closely related to us than comb jellies, which have nerve nets and muscle cells.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 May 2023
Baby corals billow beneath the waves before attaching to something solid; baby comb jellies burst into being in the open ocean; and baby turtles wriggle their way through the sandy shores.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
Or the comb jellies, which move themselves around by spinning lots of thread-like cilia.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 May 2023
The fossils from Utah and China, Lieberman says, are definitely jellyfish and not the comb jellies the new paper suggests.
—Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Aug. 2023
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