Polished Crinoid Fossil Sphere | Ancient Sea Stone | Natural Ocean Fossils | 2.5 Cm or 3cm Spheres | Fossilized Sea Lily | You Pick Size! - Etsy

🪶 Big Blue Monday Fun Fact 🌟 Meet The Feather Star. This weird reef visitor isn’t coral or a plant. It’s a feather star, an echinoderm related to seastars. It can crawl along the reef and even swim short distances using its feather-like arms. Feather stars are filter feeders. They spread their arms into the current to catch plankton drifting by. During the day, many stay curled up and hidden in the reef. At night, they emerge, spread out, and become much more active. This is why you’re more li

Crinoids: Ancient Echinoderms

Crinoids (Feather stars)⁣ Crinoids are marine animals that make up the class Crinoidea, one of the classes of the phylum Echinodermata, which also includes the starfish, brittle stars, sea urchins and sea cucumbers.⁣ ⁣ 📍 Location: Raja Ampat, West Papua.⁣ 🎥 Filmed by: Marcelo Johan Ogata #bugdreamer⁣ ⁣ #crinoid #starfish #wildlife #animals #wildaware | FACT