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Solving the mystery of 570-million-year-old Mistaken Point fossil... (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Oct 2016
Dufour and McIlroy think that Fractofusus transported oxygen below its body to the symbionts either by moving water using whip-like appendages called cilia on their outermost cells, or by diffusion through a layer of inert material called mesoglea ... Fractofusus might therefore consist of a thin layer of cells surrounding the mesoglea, which would ......

Self-repairing symmetry in jellyfish through mechanically driven reorganization

Edit PNAS 09 Jun 2015
Abstract ... We call this process symmetrization ... Instead, we find that forces generated by the muscular network are essential ... A mathematical model that describes the compressive forces from the muscle contraction, within the context of the elastic response from the mesoglea and the ephyra geometry, can recapitulate the recovery of global symmetry ... ....

New to Nature No 135: Cycloseris boschmai

Edit The Guardian 16 Nov 2014
This new type of mushroom coral has been discovered among the specimens collected on a 1922 Dutch expedition. The new mushroom coral is the smallest that has yet been discovered ... Among the corals he labelled as Cycloseris marginata was one dry specimen from Indonesia only 28mm in diameter ... the external epidermis, cells lining the gastrovascular cavity that participate in digestion, and the jelly-like mesoglea sandwiched between ... ....

Two unclassifiable species found off Australian coast

Edit The Observer 02 Nov 2014
Four views of Dendrogramma enigmatica, an unclassifiable species found off the Australian coast. Photograph. PLOS ONE. Two unclassifiable mushroom-shaped creatures have been discovered in the ocean depths off Australia ... Dendrogramma enigmatica sp. n., A, holotype, ‘lateral’ view ... half of stalk showing gastrovascular canal in centre (pharynx), mouth-field lobe with thickened epidermis, and main systems of fibrils in mesoglea ... Illustration ... ....

12 Curious New Species We Met in 2014

Edit Mashable 07 Oct 2014
Just because the world contains thousands of petabytes of information doesn’t mean we know everything yet. Every year, we discover hundreds of new species about which almost nothing was known before ... See also. Get Lost in These 19 Fascinating Maps. This year, we found 12 of this year's most interesting newcomers from the animal kingdom ... 1 ... Similar to sea sponges, they have a dense mesoglea that gives them a jelly-like consistency. Image ... 2 ... ....
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