Tunicates are an extremely diverse group of marine invertebrates that have an outer cover or tunic to protect them from predators, and many of the species live attached to a hard surface on the ocean ...

On Earth Day, April 22, the Frontiers Planet Prize was announced, and Professor Evan Economo, head of OIST's Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit, was chosen as the National Champion for Japan for his ...

Though the idea of roaming around boneless is foreign to us as humans, it is actually the state of the vast majority of life ...

Many of Australia’s natural places are in a poor state. While important work is being done to protect particular species, we must also take a broader approach to returning entire ecosystems to their ...

Considering the recent cold temperatures and winter weather throughout our region, I thought a timely topic might be considering how invertebrate animals rebound after such harsh periods. Regarding ...

Many of today’s marine invertebrates, including sponges and jellyfish, have chromosomes with the same ancient structure they inherited from their primitive ancestors more than 600 million years ago, ...

A program at the Smithsonian’s Bocas del Toro Research Station, in Panama, allows marine invertebrate experts to pass down their very specific knowledge to aspiring taxonomists. Vanessa Crooks ...