How to Use comb jelly in a Sentence

comb jelly

noun
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  • 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
  • Venus’s girdle, a species of comb jelly, or ctenophore.
    — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 8 June 2021
  • Some species like the Leidys comb jelly have photophores inside the bell, or main body, Burgess says.
    — National Geographic, 30 June 2018
  • Or the comb jellies, which move themselves around by spinning lots of thread-like cilia.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 May 2023
  • But there’s a downside: comb jellies adapted to life in the deep need that high pressure to keep their membranes intact.
    — Elizabeth Anne Brown, Scientific American, 27 June 2024
  • The bloody-belly comb jelly has become a poster child for the exhibition.
    — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • For a long time comb jellies were thought to be closely related to jellyfish.
    — Quanta Magazine, 25 Mar. 2015
  • This analysis consistently put comb jellies, not sponges, at the bottom of the tree.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 11 Apr. 2017
  • 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
  • Now, reports Laura Geggel for LiveScience, a new study makes the case that comb jellies actually came first.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 11 Apr. 2017
  • Unlike true jellyfish, comb jellies glide through the water, propelled by rows of fused, hair-like cilia called combs.
    — Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024
  • But back in 2008, based on early information from the first sponge and ctenophore genomes, Dunn and his colleagues had proposed that comb jellies branched before sponges did.
    — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 17 May 2023
  • Their closest relatives that still live today include sponges, sea anemones and comb jellies.
    — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 17 May 2023
  • Scientists have discovered a new blob-like species of ctenophore, or comb jelly, off Puerto Rico.
    — James Rogers, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2020
  • An undersea drone captured high-definition video of the comb jelly during the dive.
    — James Rogers, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The fossils from Utah and China, Lieberman says, are definitely jellyfish and not the comb jellies the new paper suggests.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • This comb jelly houses a hyperiid amphipod (pink mass with black eyes at right).
    — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 8 June 2021
  • Across 22 species of bioluminescent comb jellies, the scientists found a group of genes that fit their criteria.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Dec. 2016
  • This little golden fellow, a bathypelagic ctenophore or comb jelly, anchors itself to the seafloor with its tentacles.
    — Discover Magazine, 7 July 2010
  • In the video above, the robot is using a tube to collect an umbrella comb jelly, Thalassocalyce inconstans.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Baby corals billow beneath the waves before attaching to something solid; baby comb jellies burst into being in the open ocean; and baby turtles wriggle their way through the sandy shores.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
  • As photos and eyewitness accounts of the sighting began to circulate on social media, those with knowledge of the marine life in the region identified the blobs as a type of jellyfish called a comb jelly.
    — Mike Wehner, BGR, 5 June 2021
  • The cannibalistic animal is a species called Mnemiopsis leidyi, which is also known as the warty comb jelly, according to researchers.
    — Fox News, 9 May 2020
  • Despite being superficially similar and about equally as old, jellyfish and comb jellies belong to two different branches on the tree of life.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Aug. 2023
  • But before he’s sucked into its pulsing mouth—nail-biting tension here!—the comb jelly and Scomber are both unexpectedly trapped in the mouth of a sea trout, who fortunately spits them both out after a few experimental bites.
    — Anelise Chen, The Atlantic, 17 May 2022

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