The emerging hobby of taking pictures of them is known ... most marine fishes and invertebrates look and behave vastly different in their larval stages than they do as adults.

which means they are related to other marine invertebrates like sea stars (also called starfish) and sea urchins. The larval stage of these animals is free-swimming, and the long spikes (1) that you ...

in part because a closely related group of marine invertebrates, the hemichordates, have a similar stage. It has always been something of an embarrassment, therefore, that no such larva was known ...

Its strikingly modern morphology thus reflects a very early specialization of larval stages within the crab lineage. Based on the discrepancy between the conservative and still quite primeval ...

For many ocean invertebrates, the first stage of life occurs as tiny larvae in the plankton. The toughness of the planktonic larval life has caused many scientists to wax poetically, as we tend to do ...

The creatures go through six larval and six juvenile stages between egg and adulthood ... and copepods inhabit all of that.” These tiny invertebrates can be found in the deepest ocean trenches ...

Many marine invertebrates, like sand dollars and sea snails, spend their larval stage floating through the sea. Eventually, they detect chemical signals indicating that it’s time to metamorphose.

However, little attention has been placed on whether digestive processes are impacted by decreased seawater pH, particularly in larval stages of marine invertebrates. Proteolytic enzymes are ...