Ping!.....................
They dug up my ex MIL?
fossilized crinoid stems are known as “indian money” in my area.
GloBULL warming...
“A symbiotic relationship between two marine lifeforms has just been discovered”
“It’s also unclear what benefit the crinoids gain from a relationship with coral”
Wouldn’t that make it a parasitic relationship, not symbiotic?
what else is down there?
GODZILLA?!
Radiation from Japan’s Nuke Meltdown woke them back up?
Can new sightings of Godzilla be fare behind? ;)
Living fossils? Nancy, Chuck and Maxine?? 😀
The global warming liberals believe this is going to feed us for the next million years...
My misspent youth!
Sifting through gravel runs mostly finding a few crinoid disks and stems, but when the stars aligned a crinoid head or fragments!!!
And now you tell us they are alive!!!
C'mon man...!
Lots of things live on the ocean floor, an area, which until relatively recently, was considered so inhospitable that nothing at all could live there. I’ve seen estimates that we have cataloged only a tiny fraction of life that is with us today. Because the conditions for fossilization are so rare, we probably will never know about the billions of lifeforms that existed in the past but are no longer alive today. By the way, this doesn’t mean they weren’t amazingly successful. No one would say that Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, or Cornelius Vanderbilt were not successful just because they are no longer here today. Also, like the aforementioned men, it’s entirely possible that their progeny are alive and well, but we don’t recognize them as that progeny.
We know of the fossilized remains because the dry land on which they are found was, when those animals were alive, at the bottom of a deep sea. The fact that we lost track of them in the strata is because the sea beds of the intervening millennia are mostly the sea bottoms of today.
This post has me motivated to post one myself. Let’s have fun tearing evolution apart and feeding it to the crows :)
And yet we still can’t find a Bigfoot that so many delusional people believe in. I mean, if we can find a living fossil on the ocean floor, you would really think we could find a Bigfoot, if it existed. In other words, this article is proof that Bigfoot does not exist.
Fame retardant suit on when all the Bigfoot believers come after me.
Crinoid, epibiont, hexacoral, benthis.... four new words on a Monday morning, I don’t think I can stand it.
Ugh, frankenfish.
Available at all seafood markets June 1. Yummmy.
Try ‘em deep fried, sauteed or straight up uhhh down..
Why Nancy Pelosi appeared in the early Mesozoic Period.
One of the most fascinating “living fossil” tales for me is the survival of the Coelacanth.