{"id":233947,"date":"2026-03-24T03:25:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/the-comb-jelly-brain-is-far-more-complex-than-we-ever-realized"},"modified":"2026-03-24T03:25:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:25:17","slug":"the-comb-jelly-brain-is-far-more-complex-than-we-ever-realized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/the-comb-jelly-brain-is-far-more-complex-than-we-ever-realized","title":{"rendered":"The Comb Jelly \u2018Brain\u2019 Is Far More Complex Than We Ever Realized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-comb-jelly-brain-is-far-more-complex-than-we-ever-realized2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comb jellies \u2013 very simple, gelatinous creatures best-known for their hypnotic underwater light shows \u2013 first appeared in Earth\u2019s oceans around 550 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p>For a long time, biologists have kind of considered them the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/bizarre-jelly-blob-glimpsed-off-puerto-rican-coast-in-first-of-its-kind-discovery\">living embodiment<\/a> of \u2018no thoughts, head empty\u2019<\/p>\n<p>But a new study suggests their central sensory organ is far more complex and brain-like than we realized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comb jellies \u2013 very simple, gelatinous creatures best-known for their hypnotic underwater light shows \u2013 first appeared in Earth\u2019s oceans around 550 million years ago. For a long time, biologists have kind of considered them the living embodiment of \u2018no thoughts, head empty\u2019 But a new study suggests their central sensory organ is far more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}