Everyone prepare to have your minds blown six ways to Sunday, because scientists have released another fascinating view of… sea urchins. This time around, they captured cross-sectional images of the ...

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 ...

The film explores the fascinating world of echinoderms, focusing on sea stars and their relatives, such as sea urchins and sand dollars. It describes their unique body structures, including radial ...

It used to be thought that sea urchins only had a primitive nervous system, but new research has found that they are far more complex than that. The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are ...

Consider the sea urchin. Specifically, the painted urchin: Lytechinus pictus, a prickly Ping-Pong ball from the eastern Pacific Ocean. The species is a smaller and shorter-spined cousin of the purple ...

The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously ...

A recent study is shaking up our understanding of nervous systems in animals. The humble sea urchin, a marine creature lacking a centralized brain, nonetheless reveals a neural organization of ...

In Northern California, purple sea urchins are decimating kelp forests. Though the species of urchin causing problems may vary by region, the damage is the same. NNehring/iStock This article is from ...

Everyone prepare to have your minds blown six ways to Sunday, because scientists have released another fascinating view of… sea urchins. This time around, they captured cross-sectional images of the ...