The Crinoidea, a class of marine echinoderms, have long captivated palaeontologists as one of the most enduring and diverse components of the marine fossil record. Their evolutionary history spans ...

Three Endoxocrinus maclearanus flank a purple sea fan with a snake star at 2000 ft depth in the Bahamas. Image courtesy Bioluminescence 2009 Expedition, NOAA/OER If you didn’t get a chance to follow ...

The ocean floor is home to a menagerie of odd and peculiar creatures. Now, armed with a remote controlled vehicle, researchers in the South China Sea have discovered another. During surveys from the ...

The pattern of arm branching and arm morphology in the camerate crinoid family Melocrinitidae became more complex during an evolutionary sequence which extended from Late Ordovician to Late Devonian.

A video has caught an underwater animal, which looks like a flower, practically jogging along the ocean bottom. The stalked crinoid spends most of its time sitting and catching food with the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Two siphonostomatoid copepods are associated with the crinoid Capillaster multiradiatus in Madagascar and in the Moluccas. Collocheres ...