The ocean is a wild habitat where any keen beachgoer could spy a myriad of marine life that comes covered in shells or swims ...

Understanding the optimization landscape in deep neural networks is essential for evaluating model performance, especially in distributed environments like federated learning (FL). Recent studies ...

Tropical cyclones (TCs) are among the most deadly and damaging natural disasters in coastal areas worldwide. Traditional forecasting methods face challenges as they neglect crucial spatial information ...

Starfish Scent May Shield Great Barrier Reef Coral Researchers have found a new, naturally derived technology that could help control outbreaks of the coral-munching crown-of-thorns starfish - by ...

Learn how starfish got their shape after a complicated evolutionary process, starting with an ancestor that lived 500 million years ago.

What we then see through the fossil record is a transition from bilateral symmetry, to asymmetry, then threefold symmetry, before we arrive at the pentaradial symmetry that defines all living ...

A 500-million-year-old fossil from Morocco, discovered by Natural History Museum scientists, is offering extraordinary new insights into one of evolution's most puzzling transformations: how ...

Discovery of 500-million-year-old fossil Atlascystis acantha shows how modern-day five-armed starfish and relatives evolved from an ancestor with two ‘arms’ A 500-million-year-old fossil from Morocco, ...

How Did The Starfish Become A Star? 500-Million-Year-Old Fossil Solves Evolutionary Mystery From bilateral to pentaradial, the starfish took a basic body plan and ran.

The Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (Acanthaster; CoTS) is native to reefs of the Indo-Pacific and plays a key role in maintaining ecosystem health. A single CoTS can consume up to 240 cm 2 of coral tissue ...