In my previous All Creatures entry I introduced you to two local stars – seastars that is- in the waters around Palmer Station. As members of the phylum Echinodermata, sea stars have a large and ...

During examination of echinoderms from sunken wood collected from depths between 1,057 and 1,208 m off the New Zealand coast, we discovered nine specimens of a small flattened discoidal invertebrate.

COCKBAIN1 has suggested an extension of the suture-line theory2 of the origin and significance of pentamerism in the phylum Echinodermata, which depends primarily on the fact that all modern ...

Diversity in Living Echinoderms. This exercise illustrates the two major features that all members of the Phylum Echinodermata have in common - the water vascular system and pentaradial symmetry. The ...

New Phylum Sheds Light On Ancestor Of Animals, Humans Date: November 5, 2006 Source: University of Florida Summary: ... echinoderms and hemichordates, as well as chordates ...

The phylum echinodermata includes the sea stars, sea urchins, sand dollars, sea cucumbers, sea daisies and s… News Sports Entertainment Lifestyle Opinion Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals ...

Echinoderms and chordates (a closely related phylum that includes humans) share a feature that distinguishes them from most other animals: they are so-called deuterostomes, in which the anus ...

The successful student will collect primary, quantitative palaeoecological data spanning several intervals of past change, focusing on those echinoderm groups and events which most interest them.