brittle star

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In a paper published Wednesday in The Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a team of scientists describe the fossil of a brittle star that was petrified while regenerating three of its six limbs.

From New York Times

Small prey present in their environment at all temperatures included brittle stars, small crustaceans, worms, and molluscs.

From Science Daily

But headless animals called brittle stars have no brains at all and still manage to learn through experience, new research reveals.

From Science Daily

The corals were also crawling with critters, including squat lobsters, feathery brittle stars, and dense patches of anemones and sponges.

From Scientific American

Millions of years ago, animals in this phylum—including starfish, brittle stars, sea cucumbers and sea urchins—were all bilateral.

From Scientific American