Creating a New Animal Shape by Combining Multiple Comb Jellies

This may be the closest scientists have ever come to creating Frankenstein's monster. The living parts of dozens of animals known as comb jellies fused together to create a series of new forms, sometimes lasting for more than a week.

These chimeric animals are not just physically connected pieces of different individuals, he says. Leonid Moros at the University of Florida. Their nervous systems also fuse to form an entity led by fellow University of Florida colleague Tigran Norekian…