“Salps actually, this will sound a little odd, they’re our cousins. They are very simple members of the phylum chordata,” said Coastal Carolina University marine science professor Juliana Hardin ...

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Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new phylum of microbes, CSP1-3, has been discovered in the deep soil of Earth's Critical Zone, which plays a crucial role in water purification. These microbes ...

Scientists just discovered a new phylum of microbes in Earth’s Critical Zone. The Critical Zone—also known as the planet’s “living skin”—is responsible for processes like water filtration.

the earliest known chordate—the group of animals that would later evolve into vertebrates. This was the full flowering of the “Cambrian explosion,” the sudden appearance of a vast new ...

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 ...

From their tiny bodies, long slender beaks, and iridescent feathers to their ability to hover and fly backward, hummingbirds are fascinating creatures. The hummingbird family Trochilidae consists of ...

Scientists have now identified a whole new phylum of bacteria, which is abundant and widespread in the "dark forest" of our planet's deep soils. Using high-quality metagenome data, an international ...

This valuable study provides a comprehensive description of the Nematostella vectensis matrisome - the genes encoding the proteins of the extracellular matrix. The authors combine new mass ...