Crinoids have many similarities and differences to Angelina, Brad and the kids. Crinoids http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crinoid are related to starfish, have a gut alongside the mouth, no gonads, a stem, calyx, arms and other parts. Many lived in past eras but are now extinct found only as fossils.
Crinoids can be born attatched to a rock or something on the seabed substrate, and may later free themselves and go for a walk.
LUX magazine encountered a bunch of crinoids entangled in a clump of elephant kelp.
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The Crinoids which LUX magazine had disintangled from the stranded kelp, flushed in ocean and arranged for imaging purposes were subsequently released into the outgoing tide and are hopefuly rescusitated fully from the dried up, beached state they were discovered in.
Crinoid clump visible as dark spot approximately lower central in image.Crinoids have interesting water bearing vessels which appear white contrasting against the blood colored head. Like a bloodshot eye inversed.
Crinoids observed in a plumper, longer stemmed state are depicted in a painting titled: Feeding The Children. _ at Aquamarine Art Gallery: http://www.konstsian.blogspot.com/
