A comb jelly wart (Mnemiopsis leidyi)
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He may be the closest scientists have yet come to creating Frankenstein’s monster. Known as comb jelly, living parts of dozens of individual animals have been joined together to create a series of new forms that have lasted in some cases for more than a week.
These chimeric animals are more than physically connected parts of different individuals, he says Leonid Moroz at the University of Florida. Their nervous systems also merge together, creating entities that will be called by his colleague Tigran Norekia, also at the University of Florida…
