Beneath the waves, there are strange, almost alien creatures that raise questions about the evolution of life on Earth and our own earliest origins. The answers might be hiding in tunicates. Tunicates ...

(This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!) They are a species of marine invertebrates with an evolutionary ...

When I recently posted photos of some tunicates (common marine animals of the coast) encrusting an old lobster trap to my website, a former student commented "kinda looks like someone sneezed, Doctor.

Elizabeth Gamillo is a staff writer for Discover and Astronomy. She has written for Science magazine as their 2018 AAAS Diverse Voices in Science Journalism Intern and was a daily contributor for ...

The lancelet Branchiostoma caribaeum Sundevall has been reported infrequently from the southeastern Atlantic Coast of the United States; no study had been made of its abundance, distribution, or ...

The closest relatives of vertebrates are the urochordates (tunicates, or sea squirts) and cephalochordates (the superficially fish-like lancelet). More distant on the evolutionary tree lie the ...

A newly discovered gut 'missing link' shows how mammals evolved to live with their microbes. A new Nature Communications paper has journeyed to the inside of our insides, as a team from the Okinawa ...

Progenitor cells that fulfil all the criteria defining the neural crest have not been observed outside vertebrates. These criteria include an embryonic origin at the lateral borders of the neural ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Little work has been done to describe lancelets as filter feeders, and hitherto no data have existed on either filtration rates or the ...

Nov. 21 (UPI) --The research is clear, the physiological complexity that makes modern humans -- and other mammals -- unique from simpler species is a product of gene regulation, not genet quantity.

Research recently published in the journal Microplastics and Nanoplastics describes a proof-of-principle study of a new method to remove nano- and microplastics from the ocean. The method employs a ...