The diversity and abundance of echinoderm fossils is reflected in the Museum's large, world-class collection. Fossil echinoderms are numerous, due in part to the fantastic preservation potential of ...

Echinoderm means “spiny skin” in Greek. Echinoderms are found in ocean ecosystems worldwide, from rocky shores to the deep sea. Animals in this phylum are characterized by radial symmetry as ...

“In fact any relatively complete echinoderm is a rare find. As soon as I received the fossil for preparation from Jonathan, I realized it was a significant find with scientific importance.” ...

Tommy Trenchard Sea cucumbers belong to the echinoderm family, along with starfish and urchins, and come in all shapes and sizes. They spend their days buried in silt, emerging at night to feed ...

The echinoderm symbolized more than her marine return. “Starfish are amazing because they can lose a leg and grow it back,” ...

Echinoids differ from other echinoderm classes in that the majority of their skeleton is built up of oral elements (ambulacral and interambulacral plating systems). The aboral plating system is ...

An isogenic cell line was created to model cancer patients with the echinoderm microtubule-associated protein-like 4 (EML4)-anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) fusion oncogene and tested for its ...

Using micromanipulation, advanced imaging, reverse genetics, as well as biochemical approaches in dividing echinoderm and ascidian eggs, we are analyzing how the fertilizing sperm aster migrates in ...

He also writes the Echinoblog, an echinoderm-related blog, and manages the Department of Invertebrate Zoology's social media channels. Mah received his PhD from the University of Illinois in 2005.

Invertebrate Paleontology; Carbonate Sedimentology; Paleozoic Coal Swamps; Measuring Mg/Ca ratios of permineralized plants and marine invertebrates (echinoderm crinoids) found in Late Pennsylvanian ...

His work on fossils has concentrated on the evolutionary information that can be teased from the orientations of crystals in echinoderm skeletons, although he has also strayed into dinosaur ...