The post-Palaeozoic crinoid order Cyrtocrinida exhibits remarkable morphological diversity and ecological versatility, yet its fossil record from southern continents ...

Echinoderms, such as starfish, sea urchins and sea lilies, use small, flexible, tubular projections called "tube feet" for locomotion, feeding, respiration and sensory perception. Crinoids, a subgroup ...

Crinoid fossils turn up by the millions, but this is just the second time that scientists have found one with soft tissues still intact. Reading time 3 minutes Scientists believe that Earth’s earliest ...

Scientists have identified exceptionally rare soft tissue preserved in a 450-million-year-old crinoid fossil, more than 200 million years older than the first dinosaurs. Its delicate tube feet offer a ...

Britain’s Christine Clark was out on a fossil hunt on Boxing Day when the 64-year-old found a pebble that was smiling at her from the sand. The BBC reports that Clark posted a photo to a fossil ...

Near the top of the world’s highest peak, climbers sometimes spot seashells and delicate crinoid stems locked inside pale limestone, a jarring sight in the thin, frozen air. Those fossils formed on an ...

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