It is amazing to watch these animals move and feed with the understanding that they have no brain!
Check out the diversity of echinoderms that we have found when exploring the marine environment with students.
Basket star dried specimen (Gorgonocephalus arcticus)
Daisy brittle stars (Ophiopholis aculeata)
Dwarf brittle star as seen under the microscope (Axiognathus squamata)
Common sea star (Asterias vulgaris)
Forbes' asterias (Asterias forbesii)
Blood star (Henricia sanguinolenta)
Mud star (Ctenodiscus crispatus)
Winged sea star (Pteraster militaris)
Purple sunstars (Solaster endeca)
Spiny sunstar (Solaster papposus)
Silky cucumber or tufted synapta (Chiridota laevis)
Orange footed sea cucumber (Cucumaria frondosa)
No common name for this sea cucumber (Thyonidium drummondii)
Green sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis)
Sand dollar (Echinarachnius parma)
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