Crinoids are often referred to as “sea lilies” even though they’re technically animals, not plants. They have been around since the late Cambrian, some 500 million years ago — 250 million ...

The predator was attempting to eat sea lilies, also called crinoids. The deep-sea creatures, which could be mistaken for plants, still exist today. The fossil also appears to contain bryozoans ...

The Arctic seafloor is cold, unforgiving, and barren. Or is it? Few would argue against the ‘cold’ and ‘unforgiving’ parts, ...

Crinoids are a group of eerie, perfectly symmetrical creatures that include sea lilies and sea feathers. Sea lilies attach themselves to the ocean floor with a stalk, while sea feathers abandon ...

Dr Neil Clark, a real life palaeontologist, shows a range of fossils including colonial coral found in equatorial regions, crinoids which are sea lilies still alive today and orthocones (related ...