Just when you think you have the basics down, just when you show signs of getting comfortable with your zoology, a profound discovery is uncovered that will rewrite molluscan, larval ecology and ...

Under the microscope, sea water reveals the larval stages of little-known marine creatures called phoronids (horseshoe worms), but finding their parents is another story. Although such fanciful larvae ...

PROF. MORTENSEN'S “Studies of the Larval Forms of Echinoderms”, reviewed in Nature for Dec. 8, 1921, is well known. He has now issued two sets of additional notes, * one resulting from a visit to ...

Animals in hard-to-reach places, especially strange, 'unattractive,' animals, may completely escape our attention. We don't know what their role is in the environment. In fact, we don't even know they ...