Crinoids typically live attached to the bottom of the sea by a long, flexible column and root-like base. The main part of the crinoid body has arms that channel food into the mouth. The hard structure ...

What kind(s) of organisms are fossilized here? 24. These are fossils of the same kind of organism, a crinoid. Crinoids are very delicate creatures with many fine structures (see picture). In one of ...

The skeleton of a prehistoric rodent. Stalactites of an unusual tubular form. An intact crinoid fossil, a seabed animal with feathery arms used for feeding. A tiny hole beckoned at the far end of ...

This fossil is essentially the mud that filled the depression formed by the dead sponge, including the spicules of the sponge and other debris, including tiny plates from a crinoid. 4. #1622 ...

Filter-feeders were expected but this squat lobster was a very pleasant surprise While the world gaped at the extraordinary preservation of Shackleton's Endurance ship, one group of people were ...

Ceramics has come a remarkably long, raucous way since the early 1950s.