Relatives of starfish, brittle stars spend most of their time hiding under rocks and ... which join to form a nerve ring near their mouth. “There's no processing center,” said lead author Julia Notar, ...

Researchers collected dozens of sea creatures known as brittle stars from Mexico’s Pacific coast between 2011 and 2020, but when they looked through archives to try to identify their catch ...

The paper J. Delroisse et al., “A puzzling homology: A brittle star using a putative cnidarian-type luciferase for bioluminescence,” Open Biology, 7:160300, 2017. Degrees of separation Although the ...

(CN) — Paleontologists in Luxembourg recently identified a new species of brittle star — a sea-dwelling echinoderm similar in appearance to the starfish — that thrived during the Cretaceous period.