Researchers studying sea stars have found that each of their tube feet operates independently using local environmental feedback, allowing them to keep moving even after losing an arm. This ...

Abstract: The variable stiffness capability can broaden the range of applications by providing both the adaptability through conformability inherent in soft robots and the ability to transmit large ...

Although we think of blood as a bright red liquid contained in human veins, it has a wide variety of characteristics around ...

Allen HK, Donato J, Wang HH, Cloud-Hansen KA, Davies J and Handelsman J. 2010. Call of the wild: antibiotic resistance genes in natural environments. Nat. Rev. Microbiol., 8, 251-9. Aminov RI and ...

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonized almost all environments on Earth—from hostile hydrothermal vents in the deep sea to the skies across our continents. But the planet ...

Collectively, these other-worldly invertebrates are members of the phylum Echinodermata, a name that translates from the Greek as ‘spiny skinned’. Few animals are as spiny as a sea urchin. But ...

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth – from hostile hydrothermal vents in the deep sea to the skies across our continents. But all this ...

The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously thought, but also in echinoderms (invertebrates). This is one of the most ...

DURING recent years many additions have been made to the collection of echinoderms in the British Museum; and, as Dr. Gunther explains in his preface to the present volume, much time and labour have ...