Moon jelly found able to rearrange remaining arms after one is lost to restore balance
Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - 17:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(Phys.org)—A small team of researchers with members from the U.S. the U.K. and China has found that moon jellyfish are able to physically rearrange the anatomical structure of their remaining arms after a limb is lost. As the team describes in their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the rearranging process, which they call symmetrization, is the first ever seen in any animal.