They say we know more about the surface of the Moon than we do about the bottom of the ocean, which is what made it so ...

About 66 million years ago, just before the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs, a fish chewed up and spit out some sea creatures. Unbeknownst to that fish, its rejected meal was preserved in ...

The Crinoidea, a class of marine echinoderms, have long captivated palaeontologists as one of the most enduring and diverse components of the marine fossil record. Their evolutionary history spans ...

The ocean floor is home to a menagerie of odd and peculiar creatures. Now, armed with a remote controlled vehicle, researchers in the South China Sea have discovered another. During surveys from the ...

Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 93, No. 6 (NOVEMBER 2019), pp. 1137-1158 (22 pages) End-Ordovician extinctions had a profound effect on shallow-water benthic communities, including the Crinoidea.

Gerard Troost (1776-1850) was a Dutch paleontologist and geologist who came to America in 1810. In 1831 he became State Geologist of Tennessee. His special interest was the crinoid class of the ...