Talk:Crinoid

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This web page http://www.jeffssite.net/Fart%20facks.htm states: "The crinoid is a marine creature with a U-shaped gut, and its anus is located next to its mouth." It doesn't look like the article on Crinoids mentions this interesting piece of information. Should it?

Just added further information to this article. The new text needs links added to other articles.

Dlloyd 10:06, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Some of the text added to the article was originally published by me on the Web back in 1998.

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Dlloyd 00:41, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

The fossil history is fascinating but I was looking for information on the biology and ecology of feather-stars. Will there be an article on this elsewhere? I was particularly interested to discover if featherstars are considered an indicator species. I noticed a very significant decline in the number of these creatures around one of the resort islands in Fiji between 1987 and 2005. --Mylesclough 07:35, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

You might try echinoderm and see if there is anything there. This article does need a bit of updating/improving. --DanielCD 15:59, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

I updated this page with just some simple nicknames for the small fossilized segments. I believe it to be a mostly regional thing, but if someone is familiar with their monikers in another part of the country, that'd be great.

Sorry, last comment was me. Terminall 16:05, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

I don't know how to comment, But I see that there si no part in the article mentioning their reproductive cycle, seems like they would have one, but I cannot find it here -lee 2:25 3 April 2007 (CT)

[edit] image

This picture is available from wiki-commons. Karen Carr is a well known artist of natural history and wildlife. If you are interested.--Random Replicator 23:41, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Y'know

I remember seeing these in the zoo when I was a kid, labeled as "Sea plants that are actually animals, they just move so slowly you can't tell" and even then I thought "y'know they could be pulling our leg about these and nobody would know it.." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.122.63.142 (talk) 18:34, 24 September 2007 (UTC)