Thousands of metres below the surface, scientists are still finding animals they have never seen before.

Yujingia lived during the Cambrian explosion, when most major animal groups first appeared in the fossil record. Much of the ...

X-ray diffraction studies confirm that, with few exceptions, each skeletal element of echinoderms is a single crystal of magnesium-rich calcite and that a relation exists between the shape of the ...

From the left side of the screen, a thin, long arm reaches out. On the right, there is a red fish with large eyes. It looks as if the fish is targeting prey, or perhaps as if the owner of the arm is ...

Several 518-million-year-old fossils have been discovered – and they reshape the origins of the group of animals that contains starfish. Researchers have found they ate their food using tentacles, not ...

Somewhere in a small museum in Montreal, on a shelf funded entirely by community donations, a piece of rock had been holding onto the tube feet of a sea creature that died before dinosaurs, before ...

Nearly every morning when she was a doctoral student in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), Nicole Nakata, Ph.D. '23 ...

The oldest known "carpoids" of the echinoderm subphylum Homalozoa have been discovered in lower Middle Cambrian rocks of northern Utah. They were free-living benthonic animals characterized by a ...

Echinoderms are a phylum of exclusively marine deuterostome invertebrates characterized by pentaradial symmetry in adults, a calcareous endoskeleton composed of ossicles, and a unique water vascular ...

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A big, lethargic, heavy-bodied duck of northern coastlines. The Common Eider can be seen floating offshore in flocks of up to several thousand birds. Sociable in breeding season also, and often nests ...

Jennifer Simonson is a business journalist with a decade of experience covering entrepreneurship and small business. Drawing on her background as a founder of multiple startups, she writes for Forbes ...