The researchers found that when the animals were confined lengthwise, the result was a regeneration of two heads and often more than one foot. The discovery calls back to Greek mythology, in which ...

Cnidarians have been around for over 600 million years. However the hydra's simple approach to using light, to aid survival and increase their chances of catching prey, uses the same visual ...

An unusually elastic protein has been discovered in one of the most ancient groups of animals, the over 600-million-year-old cnidarians. The protein is a part of the "weapons system" that the ...

Hydra are simple animals that, along with jellyfish, belong to the phylum cnidaria. Cnidarians first emerged 600 million years ago. "We determined which genetic ‘gateway,' or ion channel, in the hydra ...

New research from the University of California shows how the ability to detect light could have evolved before anything like an eye. As published today (March 5) in the journal BMC Biology, the ...

Hydra species, freshwater cnidarians, are one of the few groups of animals with no defined aging. The longest studies to date (~8 years) observed no increase in mortality rate, or decrease in ...

I n the freshwater polyp Hydra vulgaris, a single population of stem cells is responsible for both gamete production and the sea anemone’s impressive regenerative abilities.However, this productive ...

21.09.2017 15:32 Cnidarians remotely control bacteria Dr. Boris Pawlowski Presse, Kommunikation und Marketing Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. CAU research team proves for the first time ...

Hydra species, freshwater cnidarians, are one of the few groups of animals with no defined aging. The longest studies to date (~8 years) observed no increase in mortality rate, or decrease in ...