Today's photograph is for you paleo-geeks ... this nice crinoid stem is from a formation I forget the name of along the western flank of the Sacramento Mountains in New Mexico. If you have some ...

A 'living fossil' believed to have gone extinct over 270 million years ago has been found thriving in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. The strange-looking fossil is formed from the stalks of marine ...

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 ...

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 across ...

The phylogenetic analysis of crinoid fauna integrates morphological and molecular approaches to reconstruct the evolutionary history of sea lilies and feather stars. By comparing character suites such ...

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 ...

The Eastern goldfinch is Iowa's state bird, and the wild rose is the state flower. Iowa's official rock is the geode, and the oak is the state tree. Now a group of seven Democrats in the Iowa Senate ...

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