Department of Chemistry and Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry (INPAC), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D and F, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium, Facultés Universitaires Notre ...

Xenacoelomorpha is an enigmatic phylum, displaying various presumably simple or ancestral bilaterian features. This valuable study characterises the reproductive life history of Hofstenia miamia, a ...

Chances are you’ve used a sponge recently to clean, scrub or otherwise beautify an area. While a large amount of the sponges used today are man-made constructs of wood pulp, hemp, polyurethane, and ...

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Researchers propose that placozoans, one of the simplest kinds of animals, may contain the blueprint for the neurons of more complex creatures. By Sam Jones For hundreds of millions of years, ...

1 Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands 2 Department of Ocean Systems, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, ‘t Horntje (Texel), Netherlands I will assess ...

Animals have evolved to eat a lot of different things, even stuff that barely passes for food, and it shapes our entire lives from what we look like to where we live. Today, we’ll talk about why being ...

The giant bones of whales (Cetacea) are the largest extant biomineral-based constructs known. The fact that such mammalian bones can grow up to 7 m long raises questions about differences and ...

Inaugurated by Dr. Constantinos C. Mylonas, Director of IMBBC- HCMR, the goal of this workshop was to prepare with experts the Red List Assessment for approximately 80 species of sponges occurring in ...

Which came first, the sponge or the comb jelly? By Cara Giaimo Poriferans, better known as sponges, are squishy, stationary and filled with holes. Ctenophores, also called comb jellies, are soft blobs ...