An eight-armed, pig-snouted brittle star found in the depths of the South Pacific has roots reaching back to the days of the dinosaurs. Researchers discovered the brittle star in 2015, in a barrel of ...

Additionally, a new species of brittle star, Ophiura pohangensis, was discovered in Miocene deep-sea deposits in Korea. This finding not only adds to the fossil record of brittle stars in the ...

Ophiojura, discovered living on a seamount deep in the Pacific Ocean, is the last known survivor of a unique group of animals that diverged from its closest relatives way back in the Jurassic period.