All animals are related to each other, but comb jellies — a marine invertebrate found in oceans around the world — are the most distantly related to all other animals, shows a new study in Nature.

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. During a dive off the coast of Southern California in 1979, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Combs might seem straightforward—come on, it’s a comb, how complicated could they be?—but there are a few factors that separate ...