Article: All eyes are on the brittlestar. (Animal News).(starfish)(Brief Article)

Article: 20/20 lenses coat body of sea creature.(brittlestar has ...
Science News;  August 25, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... Look closely enough at the arms of the brittlestar, a starfish relative, and you'd ... crevices that they spy from a distance. Brittlestar species that don't sense light don ... a light through the skeleton of the brittlestar Ophiocoma wendtii. She found that each ...

Article: Eye spy! (Life News).(how the brittlestar ...
Science World;  November 12, 2001 ;     545 words ... ... studying a bizarre sea creature called the brittlestar, cousin to the starfish, have pondered ... Finally they've found the answer: The brittlestar doesn't have eyes--it is an eye ... backbone) was blind. Although the brittlestar seems to have crystal-clear vision ...

Article: Unity in diversity; Brittlestar eyes.(Brittlestars have ...
The Economist (US);  August 25, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... has five arms and no head. It is Ophiocoma wendtii, a brittlestar. According to their paper in this week's Nature, this ... in a collaborative network (which, given the layout of a brittlestar's nervous system, is possible), information from many ...

Transcript: Analysis: Brittlestar micro lens discovery
NPR All Things Considered;  August 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ...00-00-0000 Analysis: Brittlestar micro lens discovery Host: LINDA ... primitive sea creature called a brittlestar has developed a natural micro lens ... joints that make up the arms of the brittlestar. And I finally thought, you know ...

Article: brittlestar
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      562 words ...brittlestar common name for echinoderms belonging to the class Ophiuroidea. The name is derived from their habit of breaking off arms as a ...

Article: Gizmorama: Life in the Tech Age, BRITTLESTAR GALACTICA.
United Press International;  August 23, 2001 ;     601 words ... ... grows its own corrective lens. The lens is grown of calcite and focuses light precisely at particular nerve bundles. The brittlestar changes color as an element of protection and is the only creature on Earth -- according to the scientific world -- that ...

Article: The structure and mode of function of the water vascular system ...
The Biological Bulletin;  February 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ...Introduction One of the most distinctive characteristics of echinoderms is their water vascular system - a unique arrangement of fluid-filled coelomic passages and associated parts. The general form of these structures in the different echinoderm classes has been summarized by Hyman (1955) and