How to Use comb jelly in a Sentence

comb jelly

noun
  • For years, debate had raged over whether the first to diverge was the sea sponge or the comb jelly.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 9 June 2023
  • Or the comb jellies, which move themselves around by spinning lots of thread-like cilia.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 May 2023
  • For a long time comb jellies were thought to be closely related to jellyfish.
    — Quanta Magazine, 25 Mar. 2015
  • The bloody-belly comb jelly has become a poster child for the exhibition.
    — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Their closest relatives that still live today include sponges, sea anemones and comb jellies.
    — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 17 May 2023
  • Then, after leaving one adult comb jelly without food for a day, the researchers put ten young comb jellies in its tank.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 May 2020
  • Some species like the Leidys comb jelly have photophores inside the bell, or main body, Burgess says.
    — National Geographic, 30 June 2018
  • This comb jelly houses a hyperiid amphipod (pink mass with black eyes at right).
    — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 8 June 2021
  • This analysis consistently put comb jellies, not sponges, at the bottom of the tree.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 11 Apr. 2017
  • The researchers hope the comb jellies’ fusion could one day inform transplant techniques in humans.
    — Elizabeth Anne Brown, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The team also collected other comb jelly species floating at low pressures near the ocean surface.
    — science.org, 3 July 2024
  • Again, these groups are apparently more closely related to us than comb jellies, which have nerve nets and muscle cells.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 May 2023
  • An undersea drone captured high-definition video of the comb jelly during the dive.
    — James Rogers, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2020
  • At first, scientists thought that sponges came first, but about a decade ago, comb jellies became a possibility, too.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 11 Apr. 2017
  • The combo comb jellies shared their nervous and digestive systems – but kept their own buttholes.
    — New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The need for that Goldilocks zone, however, could limit some comb jellies’ ability to adapt to climate change.
    — science.org, 3 July 2024
  • If so, does that mean the comb jelly nervous system evolved independently from the ones seen in jellyfish and humans?
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 21 Mar. 2019
  • Scientists have discovered a new blob-like species of ctenophore, or comb jelly, off Puerto Rico.
    — James Rogers, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2020
  • The presence of comb jellies and a marine plankton called dinoflagellates give the water a shimmering blue-green glow.
    — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The presence of comb jellies and a marine plankton called dinoflagellates give the water a shimmering blue-green glow.
    — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2026
  • In a tank of comb jellies in the lab, the team one day noticed a particularly big and misshapen individual.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 9 Oct. 2024
  • This little golden fellow, a bathypelagic ctenophore or comb jelly, anchors itself to the seafloor with its tentacles.
    — Discover Magazine, 7 July 2010
  • Last year, using only footage, a research team described a new type of comb jelly that lives in a deep-sea canyon north of Puerto Rico.
    — The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2022
  • In both the non-animals and the comb jellies, researchers found 14 groups of genes located on separate chromosomes.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 9 June 2023
  • Across 22 species of bioluminescent comb jellies, the scientists found a group of genes that fit their criteria.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Dec. 2016
  • Despite their name and translucent appearance, comb jellies aren’t closely related to jellyfish.
    — Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2024
  • Now, reports Laura Geggel for LiveScience, a new study makes the case that comb jellies actually came first.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 11 Apr. 2017
  • Still, the chance finding suggests that comb jellies lack allorecognition—the ability to distinguish between self and nonself within the same species.
    — Elizabeth Anne Brown, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2024
  • In the video above, the robot is using a tube to collect an umbrella comb jelly, Thalassocalyce inconstans.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Polar bears aside, the cameras have also captured other critters in the river, including capelin fish, melon comb jellies and common northern comb jellies.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2024

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