DLR's MAPHEUS 9 sounding rocket carried four experiments into microgravity for approximately six minutes on 29 January 2022. The 1.7-tonne rocket lifted off from the Esrange Space Center in northern ...
New and comprehensive molecular research confirms a deep evolutionary division among animals. This new tree of life divides all so-called "lower" metazoans (Placozoa, corals, sponges, and jellyfish) ...
Placozoa are among the simplest animals in the world. They were initially discovered living on the walls of aquariums in a European laboratory in the 1880s, and are thought to live naturally ...
The simplest of all known non-parasitic multicellular animals, Placozoans are small, flat, three-layered organisms roughly one millimeter in diameter. They contain just four types of cells as well as ...
Eitel, Michael, Osigus, Hans-Jurgen, DeSalle, Rob, and Schierwater, Bernd. 2013. "Global Diversity of the Placozoa." PLoS ONE, 8, (4) 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1371 ...