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 ...

When it comes to species discovery, Bloomington too has a major crinoid connection. The late Norman Gary Lane, a professor of ...

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 ...

Crinoids, or sea lilies, have persisted since the Ordovician and exhibit a suite of morphological and behavioural adaptations driven by predator–prey interactions. Throughout the Paleozoic and ...

The pebbles are prettier on the other side of Lake Michigan. Even amateur beachcombers know that the Dunes-area shoreline of Indiana and Michigan yields better rocks than Chicago’s gravelly man-made ...

An unusual fossil find is giving scientists new ideas about how some of the earliest animals on Earth came to dominate the world's oceans. An international research team found 425-million-year-old ...

Today's photograph is for you paleo-geeks ... this nice crinoid stem is from a formation I forget the name of along the western flank of the Sacramento Mountains in New Mexico. If you have some ...

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 marine marriage has been going strong for 273 million years. Paleontologists have rediscovered a symbiotic relationship between two deep-sea animals that were previously thought to have ...