Comments on: Weird Animals, And Why They Matter

By: David Marjanović

David Marjanović — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:27:22 +0000

IMHO the tree is full of long-branch attraction. The position of the ctenophores is probably spurious.

That said, the ctenophores are massively underresearched anyway!

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:11:08 +0000

Celebrate the second most basal metazoans! Its Coral Week at Deep Sea News.

There’s a little bit of us in them. Or is it the other way around?

By: Mus

Mus — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:11:19 +0000

Needless to say, another great article. I did, however, find a small error/misleading statement.

>>The next oldest lineages produced a group of species that included jellyfish and comb jellies, known as ctenophores.

Jellyfish and comb jellies belong to two different phyla, with the jellifish belonging to Cnidaria and the comb jellies belonging to ctenophora.

By: TR Gregory

TR Gregory — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:44:59 +0000

Their discovery does not mean that our ancestors looked like comb jellies, Dunn stresses. “That’s like saying that your cousin is your grandpa,” he said. Much of the comb jelly’s anatomy probably evolved after its ancestors split off from the ancestors of other living animals.

EXCELLENT!

By: Siamang

Siamang — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:29:20 +0000

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