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 newly described brittle star is another treasure imprinted onto the site’s limestone slabs.
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
Clockwise from top left: an anemone, a brittle star, Acanthogorgiidae coral and a pencil urchin.Credit:
From Nature • Jul. 23, 2019
The voluntary dismemberment of the brittle star may be even more pitiful—in fact almost complete, yet it still strives to pack away its forlorn body in some crevice or hollow of the coral rock.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
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