Friday Deep-Sea Picture (05/04/07)

Charles Messing graciously shared these pictures with DSN of crawling crinoids. You can see the full movie here.

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Cenocrinus asterius, a larger species, in the process of crawling up a roch off of Grand Cayman Island at about 228m

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Neocrinus decorus in normal feeding posture at the study site in the Bahamas where the creeping specimen was photgraphed

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This is just plain awesome. Thanks for posting this! Thanks to Charles Messing for sharing these pictures and video.

By Kevin Zelnio (not verified) on 04 May 2007 #permalink

Totally kewl!

By Jon Warrenchuk (not verified) on 05 May 2007 #permalink

Cenocrinus asterius - oh so creepy, but I can't stop looking! Reminds me of a feather duster...Thanks for the post and the opportunity to learn about something new :)