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 / ...

Phylogenomic approaches have transformed our understanding of echinoderm evolution by combining genome-scale data with palaeontological evidence to reconstruct robust phylogenies across all five ...

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 ...

Recent discoveries of long-gone marine invertebrates call into question the occurrence of a catastrophic global extinction hundreds of millions of years ago. The loss of diversity wasn’t as widespread ...

Scientists have discovered a new species that lived more than 500 million years ago -- a form of ancient echinoderm that was ancestral to modern-day groups such as sea cucumbers, sea urchins, sea ...

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, a phylum encompassing sea urchins, starfish and their relatives, possess an intricate and highly dynamic innate immune system. Rather than relying on adaptive immunity, these organisms ...