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Degrees of separation Although the long-tentacled brittle star (Amphiura filiformis) differs from the stout sea pansy (Renilla) in both appearance and phylogeny, researchers have now demonstrated that ...

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 ...

But most echinoderms -- a group of some 7,000 species that includes brittle stars and similarly brainless starfish, sea urchins and sea cucumbers -- have not been tested. To find out if brittle stars ...

7 “The brittle star can regenerate the arm in just a month, which is very, very fast,” said Parey. In comparison, sea stars take up to a few months to regrow a lost arm, making brittle stars an ...

The release described seeing a “pristine coral garden” about the size of three tennis courts that provided “shelter for an array of organisms such as rockfish, brittle stars, and king crabs.” ...

Ophiojura, discovered living on a seamount deep in the Pacific Ocean ... and marine animals lived a tenuous existence. But brittle stars had a survival strategy.