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. 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 spatiotemporal variation of the distribution of echinoderms in the Georges Bank ecosystem was examined from 2005 to 2012. Density and abundance of representatives from echinoderm classes (brittle ...

Calcifying sponges were initially notable contributors to biomass but were later leapfrogged by newly evolved echinoderms—including ancestors of modern-day starfish—and marine arthropods, including ...

Scientists have discovered a new species that lived more than 500 million years ago -- a form of ancient echinoderm that was ancestral to modern-day groups such as sea cucumbers, sea urchins, sea ...

It was a long, hard, and tumultuous battle, but the clash of the titans that began here at The Intersection--that will go down in science blogging history as the Great Marine Invertebrate Wars--has ...

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 ...

A comprehensive study has highlighted the alarming threat to 108 marine species facing extinction in Cuba. Conducted from January 2021 to December ...

ONE result of an expedition to Torres Strait organised by the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1913 has been that the depart ment of marine biology of that institution has published an admirable ...