Biological sciences researchers from the U of A have led the publication of a paper that expands our understanding of sensory ...

“We postulated that they must be [in other cnidarians], but we couldn't find them,” said Ulrich Technau, a developmental biologist and coauthor of the study. This led some researchers to suspect that ...

The animal kingdom contains a vast array of animals capability of remarkable regenerative abilities, but known are quite as adept at this healing task than sea-swelling Cnidarians, such as hydra ...

In the evolution of metazoans, sponges diverged first, followed by cnidarians (jellyfish and corals). Nearly all other metazoans are bilaterians — so named because they have bilateral symmetry.