For Caribbean box jellyfish, learning is literally a no-brainer. In a new experiment, these animals learned to spot and avoid obstacles despite having no central brain, researchers report September 22 ...

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They don’t have a brain or spinal cord. They float around in a way that often appears aimless. Though jellyfish lack a central nervous system, these gelatinous creatures again show that they might ...

Caribbean box jellyfish can learn from experience, even though they lack a central brain. The discovery sheds new light on the evolution and mechanisms behind learning. The researchers designed an ...

Even without a central brain, jellyfish can learn from past experiences like humans, mice, and flies, scientists report for the first time. They trained Caribbean box jellyfish (Tripedalia cystophora) ...

Jellyfish: Jellyfish and sea jellies are the informal common names given to the medusa-phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, a major part of the phylum Cnidaria. Jellyfish ...

Jellyfish actively swim high and low to catch food, rather than drift passively, according to a study of large barrel jellyfish off the Welsh coast. This behavior may explain some of gelatinous blobs' ...

I recently received a copy of Rani Shah's new book Wisdom from a Humble Jellyfish: And Other Self-Care Rituals from Nature and found it to be a fascinating read. 1 Sometimes when I see books like this ...