We study the development and evolution of mineralized tissue
in echinoderms.
Not exact matches
In recent years, Xenoturbella has been regarded as either close to vertebrates and
echinoderms, or as a more distant relative on its own branch further away.
This discovery challenges the fundamentals of
echinoderm evolution with respect to end - Permian survival and sheds new light on the early evolution of the modern clades,
in particular on Triassic ghost lineages of the crown - group look - alikes of the Paleozoic hangovers.
«Paleozoic
echinoderm hangover: Waking up
in the Triassic.»
Now researchers have gotten their first - ever look at similar tentacle - like structures
in an extinct group of these
echinoderms.
The Devonian is often appropriately called the «Age of Fishes», since the fish took their place
in complex reef systems containing nautiloids, corals, graptolites, blastods,
echinoderms, trilobites, sponges, brachiopods and conodonts.
Permian marine environments were abundant
in mollusks,
echinoderms, and brachiopods.
The acidification of oceans may well be the most insidious and pervasive threat to life
in the oceans everywhere, simply because so many different plants and animals that play key roles
in ecosystems will likely be affected — coccolithophores, pteropods, corals, mollusks (clams, mussels, oysters, snails),
echinoderms (urchins, seastars), arthropods (lobsters, crabs, shrimp), etc., etc..
We have investigated the response of a coral reef community dominated by scleractinian corals, but also including other calcifying organisms such as calcareous algae, crustaceans, gastropods and
echinoderms, and kept
in an open - top mesocosm [note: a «mesocosm» is an aquarium].
We have investigated the response of a coral reef community dominated by scleractinian corals, but also including other calcifying organisms such as calcareous algae, crustaceans, gastropods and
echinoderms, and kept
in an open - top mesocosm.
As seen
in the video below, the sea floor is teeming with
Echinoderms.