A warty comb jelly (Mnemiopsis leidyi)
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It could be the closest scientists have but come to creating Frankenstein’s monster. Dwelling items of dozens of particular person animals often known as comb jellies have been fused collectively to create an array of recent varieties that, in some circumstances, survived for greater than per week.
These chimeric animals are extra than simply bodily linked bits of various people, says Leonid Moroz on the College of Florida. Their nervous methods additionally fuse collectively, creating entities that heand his colleague Tigran Norekian, additionally on the College of Florida, name…
