At the end of the semester in the advanced invertebrate zoology course I took, my rather dry, boring professor made the only joke I remember him ever uttering. We had just finished the phylum ...

A box jellyfish advisory has been issued for Waikiki beaches today, according to HNL Alert. The advisory was issued at about 8 :50 a.m. today after box jellyfish were observed at Waikiki beaches.

Jellyfish are cnidarians, a phylum of soft-bodied invertebrates. Cnidaria also includes corals, hydras, and anemones, which all have stinging tentacles. Unlike bilaterians such as salamanders (and ...

Lamarck was the first to propose an evolutionary conversion from an invertebrate to a vertebrate. In 1809, he depicted a phylogenetic tree, including an invertebrate-to-vertebrate transition in ...

Spanning a large range of taxa from insects, molluscs, and crustaceans to annelids, cnidarians, and beyond, invertebrates make up the vast majority of Earth's biodiversity - yet their genomes ...

and invertebrates (cnidarians, echinoderms, cephalochordates and hemichordates). One of the mainstays of the article is the work carried out to sequence the amphioxus genome (Nature, 2008 ...

Porifera and Cnidaria were the two dominant sources of NMNPI worldwide ... We also highlight how marine invertebrates, which in some cases have no commercial value, may become highly valuable in the ...

Which invertebrate group will take GIW II? If polls are accurate, and like Fox News I like to think they are, the winner is the Molluscs with 37%! The next closest group, Cnidaria with a measly 17%, ...

Thousands of Portuguese men o’ war are blown onto the coast of New South Wales, Australia, during strong winds. These cnidarians are floating colonies of four kinds of organisms dependent on one ...

Researchers used DNA samples from the invertebrates to look for a special ... These animals belong to the phylum Echinodermata—other members of this group are starfish, sea urchins, and sea ...

The major invertebrate groups will be considered including the sponges, cnidarians, worms, molluscs, arthropods, echinoderms, hemichordates and invertebrate chordates. The unique features of each of ...

Beauty gets better with age, and these sea animals are mesmerizing proof. Feather stars are a type of marine invertebrate with featherlike arms that radiate from a central body. They date back ...