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Sea urchins might not be as simple as once thought. New study finds that their entire body may be their brain.
Maybe we aren't as smart as we think we are.
It used to be thought that sea urchins only had a primitive nervous system, but new research has found that they are far more complex than that. The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are ...
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Photographer shows sea urchins as ocean gemstones
I came across the stunning sea urchin photography of Anders Hallan. The way all the urchins are lined up in a grid makes them ...
The sea urchin has long stood as an exemplary model for investigating embryogenesis and the intricate gene regulatory networks (GRNs) that dictate developmental processes. Studies in this field have ...
Purple sea urchins, beware: There’s a purple urchin-eating predator on the horizon — and its name is the sunflower sea star. That’s the plot line coming from a small upstart research facility in Moss ...
Early sea urchin embryos can be split into two, and each half can develop into a complete individual. In other words, they can produce identical (monozygotic) twins—a phenomenon known as regulative ...
Svenja Kling is a fifth-year PhD student studying marine biology at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Kling ...
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