Being a Marine Biology major, this article from Science News Online caught my attention this morning:
Great Galloping Crinoids: Lilylike sea animal takes a brisk walk
Excerpts from the article:
"A video has caught an underwater animal, which looks like a flower, practically jogging along the ocean bottom...
Crinoids, which are relatives of starfish and sea urchins, once had achieved such abundance and diversity that paleontologists refer to the period 350 million years ago as the age of crinoids. Today, only two main forms remain...
A stalked crinoid pulled itself along the bottom briskly enough for a viewer to notice. Baumiller and Charles Messing of Nova Southeastern University's Oceanographic Center in Dania Beach, Fla., measured its pace at 140 m per hour. Baumiller presented the video in Salt Lake City on Oct. 16 at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America."
Fascinating!
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