A TikTok user's video of him finding a sea fossil on top of a mountain has gone viral, and many people have rushed to claim it as proof of the Great Flood—but paleontologists have different ideas.

"Crinoids have a skeleton, under their skin, made up of many small plates joined together at their edges," Hoyal Cuthill said. "Part of this skeleton is the calyx which houses the mouth and ...

The English town of Lyme Regis is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. It was here in the 1830s that William Buckland, better known for the discovery of the first dinosaur, Megalosaurus, ...

It was here in the 1830s that William Buckland, better known for the discovery of the first dinosaur, Megalosaurus, collected fossils with another pioneering Skip to content Toggle Navigation ...

Fossils of juvenile crinoids are rare, ... "Crinoids and other echinoderms have a skeleton comprised of innumerable individual calcite plates held together by various connective soft tissues.

Most fossils, while intellectually exciting, are not all that pretty to look at.One notable exception are crinoids. Also known as sea lilies, their flowerlike appearance can be stunning.

Fossils of the Cretaceous crinoid Uintacrinus socialis are preserved in a slab held in the ... and these were much larger than the plates on U. socialis. Both of the crinoids had calyxes that were ...

“It was only when experts got their hands on it that they found out that it was vomit,” Peter Bennicke, the 79-year-old ...

The size of the fossils also increases from one site to another, beginning with small flat discs from a sea creature called a Crinoid, or sea lily, in that Wal-Mart ditch, and ending with huge ...

According to scientists in Denmark, this is what happened some 66 million years ago to two crinoids, ocean-floor animals also known as sea lilies, that were swallowed by a prehistoric underwater ...