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These bizarre animals can fuse together into a single life form

Allan Rose Hill
Dec 30, 2024
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image: Kei Jokura

Researchers discovered that comb jellies—one of the world's oldest animals—can fuse together into a single living organism. It's not just their bodies that connect but also their nervous and digestive systems, and it takes less than a couple hours to complete. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution scientist Kei Jokura first observed the …

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