In the December 13 Science, Paramvir Dehal and colleagues report a draft sequence of the genome of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis, one of the smallest of the chordates (Science, 298:2157-2167, ...

The researchers who described the strange animals called them "gaikotsu-panda-hoya, "which translates to "skeleton panda ascidian" because of the distinctive markings that make them look like a ...

Cute but not cuddly, a colony of sea squirts dubbed “Skeleton panda ascidian” by divers after being discovered in waters off Okinawa Prefecture has been identified as a new species. The sea ...