finally listening to @KateShaw 's new episode about crinoids sea urchins.
https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2024/08/26/episode-395-crinoids-and-urchins/

#crinoids
#fossils
#urchins
#featherStars
#seaLilies
#echinoderrms

‘Spoon worms lick the seabed with a metre-long tongue’: a voyage into a vanishing #Arctic world https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/03/spoon-worms-lick-the-seabed-with-a-metre-long-tongue-a-voyage-into-a-vanishing-arctic-world

"in places, large numbers of #SeaCucumbers and huge colonies of filter-feeding #FeatherStars appear in the spotlights. We marvel at basketball-sized #sponges flickering across the #scientists’ screens, at apricot-coloured #anemones and star-shaped patterns extending around the burrows of spoon #worms"

🪶🌟 https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/glass-sponges-and-feather-stars-a-marine-ecologists-research-revealed

#Featherstars might look like colorful swimming ferns, but they’re marine #animals, #echinoderms that are related to sea stars, brittle stars, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers. #Marineecologist Angela Stevenson studies how glass sponges and feather stars are affected by human-caused environmental factors. Learn more about her work in this episode of the #BeatyMuseum's #Researchers Revealed #video series.

#science #biology #ecology #climatechange #oceanwarming #womeninSTEM #marinebiology #britishcolumbia