University of Florida. (2006, November 5). New Phylum Sheds Light On Ancestor Of Animals, Humans. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2006 / 11 ...

To understand what the terms hominins and hominids mean, let’s first look at the traditional classification of modern humans. Kingdom: Animalia. Phylum: Chordata (animals that have a notochord ...

Sea anemones may look alien, but scientists just found out they're hiding an ancient body 'blueprint' – one that most animals ...

Who came first – sponges or comb jellies? A new study reaffirms that sponges are the oldest animal phylum – and restores the classical view of early animal evolution, which recent molecular ...

They belong to the phylum Echinodermata, which includes starfish and sea cucumbers, whereas humans belong to the phylum Chordata, or all animals with a notochord during some point in their ...

The phylum Nematoda occupies a huge range of ecological niches, from free-living microbivores to human parasites. We analyzed the genomic biology of the phylum using 265,494 expressed-sequence tag ...