To the untrained eye, the ancient brittle star fossil above looks like what you’d expect of a now-especially-brittle echinoderm. But the fossil is quite rare: It captures the moment at which the ...
An unassuming starfish species found around the world has a shocking amount of DNA hidden inside its cells. The brooding brittle star (Amphipholis squamata), which has a tiny disk-shaped body and long ...
The brittle star specimen suggests that the sea creatures have been splitting themselves in two to reproduce for more than 150 million years. By Jack Tamisiea Some brittle stars give an arm and a leg ...
Along the western coast of Mexico, a patterned sea creature stretched its five arms across the sandy coral. Something about it caught the attention of passing scientists. But identifying the ...
As mist lingers over a Swedish fjord lined with towering, forested cliffs, a group of scientists collect mud from the bottom of the turquoise-colored waters. They’re after brittle stars—marine animals ...
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 ...
The Marianna Trench is the deepest area of the ocean, and therefore one of the most mysterious underwater regions in the world. The Mariana Trench Environment and Ecology Research expedition (MEER) ...
In the shallow waters off the coast of Taiwan, a new long-armed creature was discovered. Matt Tsai via Unsplash In the rocky intertidal zones along the coast of Taiwan, a five-armed creature scuttles ...
Scientists found a five-armed sea creature along the coast of Mexico and discovered a new species misidentified for 160 years, a study said. Photo from Paweł Kozak via Unsplash Along the western coast ...
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