A feather star takes flight into abyssal skies, with flapping arms like so many wings to soar through the eternal darkness of the deep sea. 🌊🎃 Feather stars—also known as crinoids—are related to sea stars, sea cucumbers and sea urchins as proud echinoderms. Oriented like a starfish lying on its back, a crinoid's mouth points upward, ready to received morsels of food caught by its many feather-like arms and passed down by a bucket-brigade of tiny hairs. Usually, crinoids are found on the seaflo
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