Under the microscope, sea water reveals the larval stages of little-known marine creatures called phoronids (horseshoe worms), but finding their parents is another story. Although such fanciful larvae ...

The early life history of Chlamys hastata, the spiny scallop, from spawning through metamorphosis to a benthic juvenile is described using light and electron microscopy. Newly released oocytes were ...

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The first issue of the Journal of The New York Entomological Society was published in March of 1893, and it is still in publication. Authors deal with many aspects of entomology, but the theme is of a ...

Scientists have shown that the incidence of midge and fly larvae in amber is far higher than previously thought. The new finds shed light on insect evolution and the ecology in the Baltic amber forest ...

PROF. MORTENSEN'S “Studies of the Larval Forms of Echinoderms”, reviewed in Nature for Dec. 8, 1921, is well known. He has now issued two sets of additional notes, * one resulting from a visit to ...