Before the oldest dinosaur, before animals or even plants had expanded onto dry land, ancient relatives of starfish called ...

Crinoid fossils turn up by the millions, but this is just the second time that scientists have found one with soft tissues ...

Long before the first dinosaurs walked the Earth, and even before animals or plants colonized the land surface, distant ...

Echinoderms, such as starfish, sea urchins and sea lilies, use small, flexible, tubular projections called "tube feet" for ...

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 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 ...