The Natural History Museum holds a significant collection of deuterostome invertebrates, of which about 10% represents type material. Echinoderm specialists who have worked with the Natural History ...

Marine biologist Dr. Dave Pawson has embarked on over 100 dives to the ocean floor to unravel the mysteries of elusive invertebrates like sea cucumbers and brittle stars Emma Saaty There are few ...

Echinoderms are one of the most highly derived groups of animals with many species as significant components of several marine communities. They’re classified by three fundamental shared ...

The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously thought, but also in echinoderms (invertebrates). This is one of the most ...

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.

The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously thought, but also in echinoderms (invertebrates). This is one of the most ...

The star shape of the starfish (five arms) is intriguing to many marine aficionados. But how it came to be is a question not many can answer. It is due to a gap in the fossil record of echinoderms, ...

Sea stars and their relatives eat, breathe and scuttle around the seafloor with tiny tube feet. Now researchers have gotten their first-ever look at similar tentacle-like structures in an extinct ...

Invertebrates, which constitute over 95% of all animal species, are the unheralded engine underpinning Earth’s biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Their astonishing diversity – ranging from ...

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 ...