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Posted on: May 4, 2007 7:09 AM, by CR McClain
Charles Messing graciously shared these pictures with DSN of crawling crinoids. You can see the full movie here.
Cenocrinus asterius, a larger species, in the process of crawling up a roch off of Grand Cayman Island at about 228m
Neocrinus decorus in normal feeding posture at the study site in the Bahamas where the creeping specimen was photgraphed
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Comments
This is just plain awesome. Thanks for posting this! Thanks to Charles Messing for sharing these pictures and video.
Posted by: Kevin Zelnio | May 4, 2007 8:36 AM
that has got to be one of the most dr seuss-ian critters i've ever seen... like a crawling truffula tree...
Posted by: Rick MacPherson | May 4, 2007 9:16 AM
Totally kewl!
Posted by: Jon Warrenchuk | May 5, 2007 1:08 PM
Cenocrinus asterius - oh so creepy, but I can't stop looking! Reminds me of a feather duster...Thanks for the post and the opportunity to learn about something new :)
Posted by: Bahama Meg | June 1, 2007 8:13 AM