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 ...

In the prehistoric animal kingdom, before dinosaurs walked the Earth, and even before any animals and plants occupied dry land, starfish-like creatures known as crinoids thrived in some of the ...

Crinoid fossils turn up by the millions, but this is just the second time that scientists have found one with soft tissues still intact.

A rare 450-million-year-old fossil with preserved soft tissue is revealing how some of Earth's earliest reef animals lived ...

Before the oldest dinosaur, before animals or even plants had expanded onto dry land, ancient relatives of starfish called crinoids, resembling stalked sea flowers, were among the first creatures to ...

This week, researchers reported finding nanoplastics in Antarctic soils for the first time, suggesting they were delivered via long-range atmospheric transport. A study associates the use of hormonal ...