IN NATURE of December 8 there appears an article by my friend Dr. F. A. Bather entitled “Echinoderm Larvæ and their Bearing on Classification.” The article consists of a review of Dr. Mortensen's work ...
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 ...
New research reports an intact Hox cluster in the Crown of Thorns starfish, Acanthaster planci. This surprising result contrasts with the relatively disorganized Hox cluster found in sea urchins, ...