If you have more time to hear about evolution’s innovations, Mooi will tell you that the most novel of all organisms he’s stumbled upon are those within the phylum Echinodermata. He’s biased, of ...

Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal ...

Scientists discovered a 480-million-year-old phosphatic sponge in South China, making it the oldest known stromatoporoid and ...

They belong to the Echinoidea, one of the five classes of the phylum Echinodermata, the others being holothurians, crinoids, starfish and brittlestars. Like all echinoderms, echinoids have a skeleton ...

As a months-long and sometimes contentious Oakland mayoral campaign ended Tuesday, voters in the special ...

Palaeoecology is the study of past ecosystems using palaeontological methods. Fossil data are used to reconstruct interactions between different species and between species and their environment ...

This finding establishes the phylum Porifera (sponges ... lithistid sponges, Calathium, and echinoderms. These reef ecosystems exhibit remarkable ecological complexity—comparable to those ...

Biologists have now discovered a widespread and relatively abundant bacterial phylum, named CSP1-3, in deep soils and evaluated its phylogeny, ecology, metabolism, and evolutionary history. “The ...

For brittle stars, a class of echinoderms that dominate the megabenthos in various marine systems due to their often large populations, including those on Arctic soft bottom shelves, growth and ...