DURHAM, N.C. -- We humans are fixated on big brains as a proxy for smarts. But headless animals called brittle stars have no brains at all and still manage to learn through experience, new research ...
Brittle stars, belonging to the class Ophiuroidea, are a diverse group of echinoderms that play significant roles in marine ecosystems. Recent research in brittle star systematics and taxonomy has ...
The paper J. Delroisse et al., “A puzzling homology: A brittle star using a putative cnidarian-type luciferase for bioluminescence,” Open Biology, 7:160300, 2017. Degrees of separation Although the ...
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