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 ...
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 phylogenetic analysis of crinoid fauna integrates morphological and molecular approaches to reconstruct the evolutionary history of sea lilies and feather stars. By comparing character suites such ...
When it comes to species discovery, Bloomington too has a major crinoid connection. The late Norman Gary Lane, a professor of ...