An eight-armed, pig-snouted brittle star found in the depths of the South Pacific has roots reaching back to the days of the dinosaurs. Researchers discovered the brittle star in 2015, in a barrel ...

Watch to learn more. Then we move on to their distant cousins the brittle stars (Ophiuroidea). These echinoderms have evolved in a different direction most species live under rocks. They have a ...

In particular, the abundant fossil remains of brittle stars allowed us to identify and characterize ... the bay regularly opened during the austral summer, allowing the reproduction of algae (diatoms) ...

The brooding brittle star (Amphipholis squamata), which has a tiny disk-shaped body and long spindly arms, has a genome several times larger than that seen in other brittle star species ...

Researchers collected dozens of sea creatures known as brittle stars from Mexico’s Pacific coast between 2011 and 2020, but when they looked through archives to try to identify their catch ...