So..Washington DC has been having a string of annoyingly potent thunder/lightning storms over the last week. I had some good stuff in prep but I've only just gotten power back.
So, rather than try and half-ass a post I thought it would be better to treat you to some incredible photos of feather stars aka crinoids. These are filter feeding echinoderms that use their long arms to pick food out of the water.
Crinoids have been around for a long while with fossils dating back to the Paleozoic. You may recognize fossil crinoids by their long stalk.. but most recent crinoids are unstalked and are basically a cup with a bunch of arms emerging from the top surface...
The one drawback to showing crinoids for me, is that a specimen is usually needed for identification-so many of these will have to go nameless for now..
Photos from the collection of a photographer named "Liquid Lense"...
These from Ko Haa in Thailand...
from Hin-Deang-Hin Muang in Thailand..
from Ko Haa
\
No comments:
Post a Comment