The diversity of larval forms in marine invertebrates has long fuelled discussion on evolutionary origins of novel features and pathways of evolutionary change. Most phyla of animals are marine, and ...

A 500-million-year-old fossil from Morocco, discovered by Natural History Museum scientists, is offering extraordinary new insights into one of evolution's most puzzling transformations: how ...

The evolution of the sea star, sea urchin, and other echinoderms’ body shape during the Cambrian and Ordovician periods was faster and more dramatic than their ecological innovation, according to a ...

A bold claim about the origins of the echinoderms is based on newly discovered fossils from China. But many pieces are still missing from this part of the fragmented puzzle of life's evolutionary ...

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 ...

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 ...

How the echinoderm larval skeleton is used for support of larval arms, passive orientation, and swimming was examined by experimentally removing the skeletons of plutei and by comparing feeding larvae ...

The end-Paleozoic witnessed the most devastating mass extinction in Earth's history so far, killing the majority of species and profoundly shaping the evolutionary history of the survivors.

Echinoderm research and diversity in Latin America / Juan José Alvarado and Francisco Alonso Solís-Marín -- The echinoderms of Mexico : biodiversity, distribution and current state of knowledge / ...

Focus: The diversification and evolution of Palaeozoic and Mesozoic echinoderms The Museum's Earth Science Echinoderm research focuses on the diversification and evolution of various groups during the ...

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 ...

Echinoderms are a common, widespread and successful phylum of marine animals with an extensive and well-preserved fossil record. Echinoderms are a common, widespread and successful phylum of marine ...