Japanese deep-sea cuke poops! then Flies! Sand Dollars eating! Sea Urchin Escape Artist!

and what would Thursday be without a new vid of a deep-sea swimming sea cucumber pooping and then taking off!


and from the same Youtube channel.. a sea urchin escape artist!


This Japanese sand dollar (Astriclypeus manni, I think..)eats uh...something that is probably shrimp meat...


and these aren't echinoderm videos..but wow! If you enjoy the Echinoblog-these will appeal to you..

Octopus escapes from Jar!


When Giant deep-sea Isopods ATTACK!


and the BEST for last! You have probably NEVER seen this. Giant frakkin foraminifera and their pseudopods movin around' in time lapse!

Hawaii-swimming sea cucumber and oh yeah..some sponges and stuff...

A great swimming sea cucumber is on this at about 0:39 or so....

TITANIC TURN OVERS!! When Big Multi-Armed Starfish in ACTION!!!

The giant Indo-Pacifc sand star Luidia maculata...in life and then disturbed, turned over and then, righting itself. This one is pretty amazing .....

This week is a short week because of Memorial Day on Monday and various other factors have conspired against me! So..today is videos of GIANT multi-armed starfish from various places TURNING themselves over!!

For some reason, people are always fascinating watching starfish do this! WHY? I don't know. But for some reason its better when the animals are huge, multi-armed freakish starfish monsters!!! GO!

Here's Coscinasterias calamaria from Australia...

Starfish sped up 10x from Andrew Newton on Vimeo.

Here is a Japanese Solaster sp. correcting its position...


And of course what compilation of big multi-armed starfish is complete without PYCNOPODIA-the Sunflower Star!


Could starfish behavior have some kind of practical applicaton?? Like say as a model for ROBOTS???

Hat tip to my Japanese robot/starfish fans out there!

BASKET STAR VIDEOS!! Gorgonocephalus and relatives in motion! Yow!

As a follow up to this week's earlier post on Gorgonocephalus- Today we have some nice videos of Gorgonocephalus and its relatives in the Gorgonocephalidae! (i.e., other basket stars!)

Enjoy!

A nice Gorgonocephalus time-lapse! (try to ignore the silly music)


Probably not Gorgonocephalus but possibly something related...


Not Gorgonocephalus but probably something related... pt. 2