The recent Invertebrate Wars reminded me of spectacular, but often ignored, group of gastropods. The parasites! This is a group that I have totally geeked out on in the past. In my previous work I ...

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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 ...

The bodies of starfish and other echinoderms are more like heads, according to new research involving the University of Southampton.

Comparison of echinoderm faunas from two partly coeval Early Ordovician units, the Fillmore Formation of western Utah and the Ninemile Shale of central and southern Nevada, indicates that the ...

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 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.

Taking as his starting point a young echinoderm with its aboral surface covered only by an anal plate and a surrounding ring of plates, Nichols reasons that a strong outer covering (test) would be ...

The end-Paleozoic witnessed the most devastating mass extinction in Earth's history so far, killing the majority of species and profoundly shaping the evolutionary history of the survivors ...