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This comb jelly literally tears itself a new one. #throwbackthursday #shorts #science #SciShow
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This video originally posted to TikTok on January 29, 2021.
Writer: Christie Wilcox
Fact checker: Kyle Nackers
Script Editor: Alexis Dahl
Savannah Geary: Editor
Hiroka Matsushima: Producer
Caitlin Hofmeister: Executive Producer
Hank Green: Executive Producer, Host
Source:
https://doi.org/10.1111/ivb.12236
Image Sources:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mnemiopsis_leidyi_2.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mnemiopsis_leidyi.jpg
Writer: Christie Wilcox
Fact checker: Kyle Nackers
Script Editor: Alexis Dahl
Savannah Geary: Editor
Hiroka Matsushima: Producer
Caitlin Hofmeister: Executive Producer
Hank Green: Executive Producer, Host
Source:
https://doi.org/10.1111/ivb.12236
Image Sources:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mnemiopsis_leidyi_2.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mnemiopsis_leidyi.jpg
The Warty comb jelly has to tear itself a new anus every time it needs to poop. Most of the time, it has no exits to its gut. It eats, adn its eats and all the while the waste from its food starts to build up in these weird pouches and canals off its stomach. Until eventually, it needs to go so badly that it tears itself a new anus. A small pore will appear, seemingly out of nowhere, that allows the waste to flow into the water. A few minutes later the hole disappears leaving no sign that it was ever there. As far as anyone knows, there are the only animal still alive that has an on demand transient anus. A deeper understanding of this could shed light on the evolution of our own one-way digestive tract and would also maybe help up understand a bit more about would healing