Quanta Magazine September 16, 2026 • 16:02

Ctenophores Aren’t Just Beautiful. They’re Biological Wonders. - Quanta Magazine

Ctenophores Aren’t Just Beautiful. They’re Biological Wonders. - Quanta Magazine

Comb jellies are helping answer fundamental questions in biology, from how the earliest nervous systems evolved to how bioluminescence works.

Around 700 million years ago, a group of organisms resembling little more than glowing, gelatinous blobs split off from the rest of the animals, forming possibly the earliest branching animal lineage… [+1545 chars]

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