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 ...

"Presented as a Paleontological Society Short Course at the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 19, 1997"--P. iv. Introduction to the Paleontological ...

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 ...

Oct. 12 (UPI) --New genomic analysis is helping a team of scientists unravel the secrets of the cucumber, including its ability to regenerate tissue. The genomic survey may also help scientists better ...

Much more carbon is sequestered by echinoderms than previously thought. Animals such as sea stars, sea urchins and sea lilies bury much more carbon than anticipated, according to the first study to ...