In contrast, cnidarians, such as jellyfish and sea anemones, are traditionally described as radially symmetric, and indeed jellyfish are. However, the situation is different is the sea anemones: ...

However, if the last common ancestor of Cnidaria and Bilateria was a bilaterally symmetric animal, chances are that it used Chordin to shuttle BMPs to make its back-to-belly axis. Our new study showed ...

Jellyfish are simple invertebrates — animals lacking backbones — that are members of the phylum Cnidaria, which also includes marine animals like sea anemones and corals. According to the ...

And that is what Allen Collins loves about them. Collins is a curator of marine invertebrates at the National Museum of Natural History, and he is on a quest to identify, name, and categorize the rich ...

Researchers exploring the seafloor off the coast of Chile recently captured mesmerizing footage of a flying spaghetti monster — a carnivorous, colonial creature with countless milky-white arms.

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Sea anemones These marine animals, belonging to the phylum Cnidaria, lack a centralized brain. They anchor themselves to substrates with a specialized foot, displaying colorful swaying tentacles.

Jellyfish, or medusae, belong to the group Cnidaria, members of which are already known to be capable of associative learning. This is how they can maintain awareness of their surroundings (and ...

Cnidarians -- the animal group which includes jellyfish, sea anemones and coral -- are brainless, instead getting by with a "dispersed" central nervous system Published - September 23, 2023 03:20 ...

Cnidarians like anemones and corals have a nerve net, but that seems to be enough. John Timmer – Mar 22, 2023 11:54 AM | 60 Credit: Paul Starosta Text settings ...

Scientists at Heidelberg University have discovered an unusually elastic protein in one of the most ancient groups of animals, the over 600-million-year-old cnidarians.

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