"This really comes down to understanding the diversity of life on Earth ... The Blue Whale, incidentally, is the largest animal ever, but the Chordate group doesn't boast the smallest.

The world’s simplest known animal ... Chordata, overflows with more than 65,000 living species ranging from peacocks to whales to eels. Biologists have long suspected that Placozoa hid more ...

For example, chordates comprise animals as disparate ... then this means that gene regulation played a greater role in animal diversity than the emergence of new genes did. This study has painted ...

The Cambrian Explosion saw an incredible diversity of life emerge, including many major animal groups alive today. Among them were the chordates, to which vertebrates (animals with backbones ...

and the earliest known member of the phylum Chordata. Now, a new study flips this animal on its head (literally), and suggests that a century of scholarship on the animal has been analyzing it ...

The world’s simplest known animal is so ... Our phylum, Chordata, overflows with more than 65,000 living species ranging from peacocks to whales to eels. Biologists have long suspected that Placozoa ...