Sea stars and their relatives eat, breathe and scuttle around the seafloor with tiny tube feet. Now researchers have gotten their first-ever look at similar tentacle-like structures in an extinct ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Echinoderms have long been characterized by the presence of ambulacra that exhibit pentaradiate symmetry and define five primary body axes. In ...

When I first searched the heaps of seaweeds from Beach Point to Corn Hill, my father Leonard Hansen had rented a ramshackle house that Jack built for two weeks in 1954, a great summer place to launch ...

Deuterostomes are a remarkably diverse super-phylum, including not only the chordates (to which we belong) but groups as disparate as the echinoderms and the hemichordates. The phylogeny of ...

The evolution of the sea star, sea urchin, and other echinoderms’ body shape during the Cambrian and Ordovician periods was faster and more dramatic than their ecological innovation, according to a ...

The impact on levels of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere by the decaying remains of a group of marine creatures that includes starfish and sea urchin has been significantly underestimated. The ...

Not your typical Echinoderm. This female specimen of a Xyloplax seastar was collected along the Juan de Fuca Ridge off the coast of the state of Washington; it measures less than a quarter-inch (4 mm) ...

The film explores the fascinating world of echinoderms, focusing on sea stars and their relatives, such as sea urchins and sand dollars. It describes their unique body structures, including radial ...

This collaborative studentship is potentially funded by the University of Reading as part of a strategic partnership to support innovative collaborative research between the University and the Natural ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Commensal shrimps associated with echinoderms, molluscs, and coelenterates were collected in Tayrona National Park northeast of Santa Marta ...

We often think of eating seafood in the spring and summer, but did you know that October is National Seafood Month?