The small rock her team uncovered was a crinoid stem from the Silurian-Devonian period – a crinoid being a marine organism that attaches to the sea bottom.

"Everything about play ecosystem was about discovery, so here you'll be able to come and discover crinoid stems and other sea creatures that lived here in Kentucky when Kentucky was under the ...

"Crinoids have a stem which is anchored to or resting on the seafloor, which raises the body (large round part in the video) and arms off the seafloor. This is so that the animal can feed more ...

These Parts/Those petrified Cheerios that wash up on beaches in the Dunes--they're the fossilized remains of prehistoric marine animals, and they have a tale to tell.

A crinoid creature can be seen with the globular non-skeletal coral attached to its stem. Zapalski et al. Their entanglement involves coral attaching itself to the stalk-like body of the crinoid ...

Most fossil crinoids had a stem and arms that they would hold up into the water and use to filter out food particles — similar to corals. A red stalked sea lily crinoid.

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, ...

Crinoid fossil. Crinoid fossil, Author provided Modern crinoids don’t typically take such journeys, but we’ve since discovered fossilised examples of groups of floating crinoids.

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 ...

Ancient crinoids could grow to massive sizes. According to the fossil-sale website Fossil Era, the largest fossil crinoid ever discovered had a stem 130 feet (40 m) long.

When Anna was 9, she found a dime-sized fossil called a Crinoid Stem at Mineral Wells Fossil Park. She decided to ask NASA to take her finding into space. NASA listened.

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. Crinoids ...