Two injured sea creatures merged to form a “Franken-jelly”
Researchers knew something strange was afoot at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., when they spied a ctenophore, or comb jelly—a gelatinous sea creature that resembles a jellyfish—with two butts.). After sustaining injuries while being collected the previous day, the comb jellies had fused overnight in the researchers’ tank to become one creature joined at the midbody.
With 21st-century tools, Jokura and his team were able to rigorously test the process. By taking high-resolution images every second after grafting more jellies together, the researchers found that the comb jellies that had fused synchronized their respective nervous systems in just two hours.
The scientists say it’s unlikely that the fusion of these animals happens frequently in the wild because adults of the species aren’t often together. Still, the chance finding suggests that comb jellies lack allorecognition—the ability to distinguish between self and nonself within the same species.
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