Charles Messing graciously shared these pictures with DSN of crawling crinoids. You can see the full movie here.
Cenocrinus asterius, a larger species, in the process of crawling up a roch off of Grand Cayman Island at about 228m
Neocrinus decorus in normal feeding posture at the study site in the Bahamas where the creeping specimen was photgraphed
This is just plain awesome. Thanks for posting this! Thanks to Charles Messing for sharing these pictures and video.
that has got to be one of the most dr seuss-ian critters i’ve ever seen… like a crawling truffula tree…
Totally kewl!
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 :)