The article discusses the remarkable regenerative abilities of animals like axolotls, flatworms, tunicates, starfish, and ...

The first director, Dr. Ritter, worked on tunicates, and his successor, Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan, worked on corals. Dr. Myrtle E. Johnson, an invertebrate zoologist at Scripps from 1904 to 1921, ...

A hungry whale mid-gulp, a lazy seagull riding a sea turtle, an adorable-yet-deadly mini octopus and a group of alien-looking ...

They are a member of the sea squirt tunicates. What does that mean? Believe it or not, they are vertebrates! Yes, the definition of a vertebrate is that they have a spine. Woods Hole ...

The Ocean Photographer of the Year Awards 2024 has once again brought together the most breathtaking images from our oceans.

and the little translucent vases of the filter feeders called tunicates—their “tunics” orange or purple or white—and soft corals and oysters and sponges in still more hues. Nothing here ...

tunicates and mollusks. The key to this vibrant, sustainable ecosystem is biodiversity from the many different species. The interactions among them create a whole greater than the sum of its parts.

Participants in the 2024 COBALT bioregional learning journey shared some wisdom during a pit stop at the Schiller Coastal ...

To begin, sea squirts are suddenly everywhere. Translucent, water-filled organisms known as tunicates and about the size of a golf ball, they can spread rapidly across the ocean floor, fouling ...

Use in medical research Recently medical research into fighting the various forms of cancer and other diseases which affect humans has begun focusing on the sea for possible cures derived from animals ...

In time—maybe months, maybe years, maybe a decade, depending on the ocean's moods—an alien expanse of raw steel will be encrusted with algae, tunicates, hard and soft corals, and sponges ...