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 • May 14, 2024
The brittle star fossil was discovered in the Nusplingen limestone deposit in southern Germany.
From New York Times • May 14, 2024
The newly described brittle star is another treasure imprinted onto the site’s limestone slabs.
From New York Times • May 14, 2024
Clockwise from top left: an anemone, a brittle star, Acanthogorgiidae coral and a pencil urchin.Credit:
From Nature • Jul. 23, 2019
The brittle star discards its limbs, or the best part of them, in the meekest manner possible.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
