The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. “The animals that live down in the deep sea are not ones that live in surface waters,” said Itay Budin, who studies the biochemistry of cell membranes at the University of California, San Diego. In 2018, Budin met Steve Haddock, a deep-sea biologist, and they combined forces to investigate whether …
A beautiful marine animal with a jelly-like body surrounded by iridescent combs. The nerve net is a diffuse nervous system made up of interconnected neurons, most commonly found in simple marine animals like comb jellies and jellyfish. In an ironic twist, the new study again demonstrated the usefulness of more advanced microscopy techniques to show that in ctenophores, at least …
