Jack Dykinga / Birdcage evening primrose (Oenothera deltoides) and desert golds (Geraea canescens) carpet the sandy washes beneath the Calumet Mountains, under the Milky Way. Mojave Trail National Monument, Mojave D...

Juergen Freund / Brittlestar on gorgonian fan coral, Papua New Guinea.

Wild Wonders of Europe / Lundgren / Brittle star (Ophiuroidea sp) Saltstraumen, Bod, Norway, October 2008

Birgitte Wilms / Brittlestar (Ophiothrix sp) juvenile on Blue Sea Star (Linckia laevigata) Solomon Islands

Florian Graner / Basket star on coral {Gorgonocephalus caputmedusae} Trondheimsfjord, Norway

Jack Dykinga / Night-blooming birdcage evening primrose (Oenothera deltoides) opened for moth polination, under the Milky Way. Mojave Desert, with Joshua Tree Wilderness and Joshua Tree National Park's Coxcomb M...

David Fleetham / Branching arms of Basket star (Astroboa nuda) capturing passing Plankton from the waters around Tubbatah Reef, Philippines.

David Fleetham / Commensal / Periclimenes Shrimp (Periclimenes lanipes) on branching surface of Basketstar (Astoboa nuda). Komodo, Indonesia.

Richard Herrmann / Octopus (Octopus sp) and Brittlestars (Ophiothrix sp), Santa Cruz Island, Channel Islands, California

Norbert Wu / Brittle Star (Ophiothrix spiculata) group and Purple Sea Urchins (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus), California

Albert Lleal / Basket Starfish (Ophiura ophiura) seen under SEM, 20x magnification

Franco Banfi / Basket star (Gorgonocephalus caryi / eucnemis ) Arctic circle Dive Center, White Sea, Karelia, Northern Russia, September