We covered something about this (or lateral to it).
Five hundred million years ago, give or take, something that was not yet an animal became one, and nobody saw it happen. This week, in a lab in Jena, Germany, somebody got as close to watching it as we may ever get. Researchers found an embryonic "organizer" — the master switch that tells a clump of cells what kind of body to build — inside a comb jelly, one of the oldest branches on the animal tree, and then transplanted those cells into a sea anemone from a completely different phylum, where they grew an entire extra mouth and pharynx.
"The footage was filmed off the coast of Brazil in the tropical South Atlantic Ocean at 897 meters (that’s 2943 feet) below sea level, in the ocean’s Twilight Zone."
WOW a new species. That is exciting. Seeing how long it is I wonder if it has trouble knowing what's going on at the opposite ends? I know it is a collective but what if one part of the collective doesn't want to communicate with another part? Do the different parts argue and call each other "splitters" over minor disagreements? I know, not everything can be compared to Monty Python but still... Thanks, Martini, for the learning. I feel smarter already. Have a great weekend.
Yay, Science!
We covered something about this (or lateral to it).
Five hundred million years ago, give or take, something that was not yet an animal became one, and nobody saw it happen. This week, in a lab in Jena, Germany, somebody got as close to watching it as we may ever get. Researchers found an embryonic "organizer" — the master switch that tells a clump of cells what kind of body to build — inside a comb jelly, one of the oldest branches on the animal tree, and then transplanted those cells into a sea anemone from a completely different phylum, where they grew an entire extra mouth and pharynx.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-burning-doesn-t-ask-permission-and-neither-does-the-green-coming-up-th#what-did-we-do-to-the-mother-today
Wow
TIL I learned that "The Abyss" is a technical term.
"The footage was filmed off the coast of Brazil in the tropical South Atlantic Ocean at 897 meters (that’s 2943 feet) below sea level, in the ocean’s Twilight Zone."
Whar Rod Serling?
Is this similar to a jellyfish?
Hi, Mr. Siphonophore, nice to meet you. 😀👏🏻🦜🦜🦜
WOW a new species. That is exciting. Seeing how long it is I wonder if it has trouble knowing what's going on at the opposite ends? I know it is a collective but what if one part of the collective doesn't want to communicate with another part? Do the different parts argue and call each other "splitters" over minor disagreements? I know, not everything can be compared to Monty Python but still... Thanks, Martini, for the learning. I feel smarter already. Have a great weekend.
Ta, Martini. Who needs SpaceX? Let's explore our own planet first!