No it's a beautiful echinoderm! Feather stars (Crinoidea) are one of the prettiest animals in the ocean, coming in a vast array of colors and patterns. These elegant animals are related to starfish ...

In short clips, mostly on TikTok, immense tangerine-coloured roe are sucked up dramatically on the beach as if they’re ramen ...

Whenever I suffer an emotional blow, I have a coded phrase that my husband and daughter both understand. I say, “The urchin ...

Scientists discovered a 480-million-year-old phosphatic sponge in South China, making it the oldest known stromatoporoid and ...

A human appetite hormone, bombesin, also controls feeding in starfish, showing it evolved over 500 million years ago. A team of biologists at Queen Mary University of London has discovered that a ...

They belong to the Echinoidea, one of the five classes of the phylum Echinodermata, the others being holothurians, crinoids, starfish and brittlestars. Like all echinoderms, echinoids have a skeleton ...

These supplements are constructed by dehydrating the body wall of sea cucumbers, a kind of echinoderm that is discovered in oceans throughout the world. Historically, sea cucumbers were a staple ...

"It's helpful in understanding two animal lineages—one is like a starfish, an echinoderm, and the other is a plankton-like organism, a hemichordate. Creeposaurus may be a common ancestor and has ...

Molecular weights and distribution of kinases in echinoderms suggest that creatine kinase arose in the gamete of a common ancestral species and emerged in contemporary adult forms by parallel ...