We see evolution all around us, constantly, in every living thing. Yet in the deep oceans we find a number of "living fossils" reminiscent of creatures from prehistoric times. In his 1859 book On the ...

When it comes to species discovery, Bloomington too has a major crinoid connection. The late Norman Gary Lane, a professor of ...

Christine Clark, 64, was hunting for fossils during a Boxing Day walk on Holy Island, Northumberland when something caught her eye. A tiny pebble seemed to be "smiling at me", she said. "It looked ...

All of Earth’s creatures have the potential to slowly fossilize, making them discoverable after millions of years to be studied and entered into the annals of science. That includes those that have ...

Crinoids, or sea lilies, have persisted since the Ordovician and exhibit a suite of morphological and behavioural adaptations driven by predator–prey interactions. Throughout the Paleozoic and ...

About 66 million years ago, just before the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs, a fish chewed up and spit out some sea creatures. Unbeknownst to that fish, its rejected meal was preserved in ...

Ausichicrinites zelenskyyi, a fossil feather star (Crinoidea) from the Upper Jurassic of Africa was named after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Fossil feather stars are mostly known from ...