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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A bold claim about the origins of the echinoderms is based on newly discovered fossils from China. But many pieces are still missing from this part of the fragmented puzzle of life's evolutionary ...

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 ...

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 ...

Echinoderms are one of the most highly derived groups of animals with many species as significant components of several marine communities. They’re classified by three fundamental shared ...

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 ...

Starfish are known for their adorable and symmetrical arms that seem to hug everything they touch. But it turns out that they may not be hugs after all – because starfish, researchers found, are ...