brittle star
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The brittle star fossil was discovered in the Nusplingen limestone deposit in southern Germany.
From New York Times • May 14, 2024
“You have this brittle star with every single piece in its original place, just as if it washed up on the beach a day ago,” Dr. Thuy said.
From New York Times • May 14, 2024
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
Clockwise from top left: an anemone, a brittle star, Acanthogorgiidae coral and a pencil urchin.Credit:
From Nature • Jul. 23, 2019
It has been asserted that no one has ever captured by hand a brittle star perfect in all its members.
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.
