A feather star takes flight into abyssal skies, with flapping arms like so many wings to soar through the eternal darkness of the deep sea. 🌊🎃 Feather stars—also known as crinoids—are related to sea stars, sea cucumbers and sea urchins as proud echinoderms. Oriented like a starfish lying on its back, a crinoid's mouth points upward, ready to received morsels of food caught by its many feather-like arms and passed down by a bucket-brigade of tiny hairs. Usually, crinoids are found on the seaflo
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Feather stars are a type of marine invertebrate with featherlike arms that radiate from a central body. Researchers say the creatures’ origins date back about 200 million years: Feather stars are thought of as ‘living fossils.’ They have a tremendous diversity that traces its roots deep down in the geological past. This footage was from our #BackyardDeep expedition off the California coast. Not all feather stars can swim. Many species are only able to crawl along the bottom. There are a few theo
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Meet the Feather Star! This amazing echinoderm is related to sea stars and sea urchins. But unlike their relatives, they have feathery, fern-like arms that wave gracefully in the water, capturing plankton for food. 🔹 They Can Swim! Unlike many of their relatives, some feather stars can swim by undulating their feathery arms. 🔹 Ancient Creatures They’ve been around for over 200 million years, surviving mass extinctions. 🔹 Hidden Feet? They use tiny, claw-like structures called cirri to cling o
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Rare mesmerizing swimming feather star 🤩🙌🏽 Feather stars are considered to be one of the coolest sea creatures because they look like plants. They have beautiful feathery arms that may look weird and awesome all at once💙🤩 Follow me for more underwater and aerial captures 🙌🏽💙 #underwater #ocean #nature #photographer #featherstar #underwaterphotography #videocreator #viral #reel #peaceful #mesmerizing #bali #explorepage
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