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 ...

Imagine standing on the sprawling plains of North America, watching a massive, shaggy beast graze peacefully. You might be ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

By analysing the genomes of invertebrate animals, they discovered genes encoding bombesin-like neurohormones in the common starfish (Asterias rubens) and other echinoderms, such as sea urchins and ...

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Srivastava noted that studying this rearrangement can provide important insights about the role of this gene cluster in echinoderms. “Hox genes seem to have a lot of constraint across evolution,” said ...

A study published Monday (June 27) in Nature Chemical Biology finds that sea cucumbers have evolved a way to synthesize these saponins with different enzymes than those used by their echinoderm ...

Twenty-four healthy sea cucumbers were selected from the holding tank for behavioral experiments. They were randomly divided into 2 groups (98.4 ± 16.2g, n = 12 sea cucumber/group), one of them was ...