This Creature Is Older Than The Concept of Blood

From Bizarre Beasts.

Welcome back to Bizarre Beasts: Season Zero, where we are remastering episodes of Bizarre Beasts that were originally created for Vlogbrothers. This episode, Feather Stars! The ancient sea creature that has been on this planet for 500 million years.

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Sources:
https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/saltwater-science/the_freaking_awesome_feeding_habits/

Feather stars are the closest thing we have to walking plants


http://tolweb.org/Crinoidea
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/calypso

Phylum Echinodermata


https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Crinoidea/
https://www.digitalatlasofancientlife.org/learn/echinodermata/crinoidea/

Urged on by urchins: How sea lilies got their get-up-and-go


https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0914199107

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Images:
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/feather-star-seascape-stock-footage/1435538256?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/close-up-of-underside-of-sea-star-time-lapse-stock-footage/1258881608?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/mouse-pointer-arrow-cursor-clicking-stock-footage/1458788610?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/green-and-blue-feather-star-crinoids-clinging-to-corals-stock-footage/1379406144?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/feather-star-stock-footage/1227192121?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/feathered-star-waving-its-arms-in-maldives-stock-footage/1327793503?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/the-ocean-and-the-corals-colorful-tropical-fish-stock-footage/1166085384
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/crinoid-fossil-close-up-stock-footage/641539824?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/feather-star-swimming-stock-footage/1411806871?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/feather-star-walking-stock-footage/1411008845?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/feather-star-crawling-stock-footage/1411191132?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/feather-star-swimming-stock-footage/1411806871?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/feather-star-walking-stock-footage/1411008845?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/feather-starfish-stock-footage/578754682?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/feather-starfish-stock-footage/578739782?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/staghorn-coral-formation-great-barrier-reef-stock-footage/1758651091?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/sea-lily-plant-undewater-of-philippine-sea-stock-footage/1565387345?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/black-sea-crinoids-night-on-reef-in-search-of-food-stock-footage/994124840?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/crinoidfossil-royalty-free-image/155419726?phrase=crinoid&adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/pyrite-crinoid-fossil-isolated-royalty-free-image/537379646?phrase=crinoid+fossil&adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/florometra-serratissima-is-a-species-of-crinoid-or-royalty-free-image/1456886179?phrase=feather+stars&adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/fossil-crinoids-royalty-free-image/1937465572?phrase=crinoid%2Bfossil
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/underwater-sea-life-royalty-free-image/1066896972?phrase=feather+star&adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/fossil-collection-royalty-free-image/182662931?phrase=crinoid+fossil&adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/red-pencil-urchin-on-the-coral-reef-royalty-free-image/1432684391?phrase=pencil+urchins&adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/fossils-02-royalty-free-image/1650856083?phrase=crinoid+fossil&adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/crinoids-royalty-free-image/1455767658?phrase=crinoid+fossil&adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/an-open-featherstar-in-the-philippines-royalty-free-image/1207549554?phrase=feather+stars&adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/feather-star-royalty-free-image/503025875?phrase=feather+star&adppopup=true
Crinoidal limestone (Kope Formation, Upper Ordovician; outcrop east of Route 17 & south of Interstate 275, Kenton County, Kentucky, USA)
https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/168249536
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0914199107


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