New types of animals made by fusing a number of comb jellies collectively

It might 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 instances, 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 programs additionally fuse collectively, creating entities that heand his colleague Tigran Norekian, additionally on the College of Florida, name…