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 ...

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.

The release described seeing a “pristine coral garden” about the size of three tennis courts that provided “shelter for an ...