Instead, things like ammonites or corals are the most common fossils; and of course, crinoids are a coveted find. Crinoids are often referred to as “sea lilies” even though they’re ...

Sure we call them sea lilies but they’re no pansies. While most people have nightmares about giant squid or shark, the denizens of the deep I fear are crinoids. They may look innocent and flower-like ...

Palaeobiologists Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill and Aaron Hunter identified the strange structures in two species of crinoid—a group of almost plant-like animals commonly known as sea lilies that are ...

Scientists think gigantic crinoids would cling to logs with anchor-like stems, creating a floating raft that likely supported a host of other species and enabled their long-distance transport ...

The predator was attempting to eat sea lilies, also called crinoids. The deep-sea creatures, which could be mistaken for plants, still exist today. The fossil also appears to contain bryozoans ...

They want to recognize the fossils of crinoids, which are marine invertebrates abundant in the rock of marine origin underlying the state, as the state's official fossil. The lawmakers ...

The crinoids were transferred to a laboratory aquarium (at 14 °C), where the females spawned at about 19:00 on the date of collection. The eggs were fertilized by sperm obtained by dissecting ...

The stalked crinoid spends most of its time sitting and catching food with the flowerlike wheel of feathery arms that have earned it and its relatives the nickname sea lilies. Scientists had known ...