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  1. Injured #ctenophores, uniquely, can #fuse together into a single organism, even integrating their #nervous and #gastric systems.

    Scientists accidentally find deep-sea 'jelly' creatures merged into 'single entity' after injury, revealing bizarre new behavior | Live Science livescience.com/animals/scient #science #biology #MarineBiology #CombJellies

  2. Under pressure: How #CombJellies have adapted to life at the bottom of the ocean
    phys.org/news/2024-06-pressure

    Homeocurvature adaptation of #phospholipids to pressure in #DeepSea invertebrates science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

    "#Ctenophores have developed unique lipid structures to compensate for the intense pressure that are separate from the ones that compensate for intense cold... so much so that the pressure is actually what's holding their cell membranes together"