Additionally, a new species of brittle star, Ophiura pohangensis, was discovered in Miocene deep-sea deposits in ... of marine animals that includes starfish, sea urchins, and brittle stars ...

The specimen is a species of an ophiuroid starfish that still exists and is more commonly known as a brittle star. It will go on display in Dublin's Museum of Natural History. Dr Doyle said it was ...

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 ...