Relatives of starfish, brittle stars spend most of their time hiding under rocks and crevices in the ocean or burrowing in the sand. These shy marine creatures have no brain to speak of -- just nerve ...

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 ...