Discovering the city of the starfishes

Scientists have discovered a new gigantic colony of "brittle-stars" on the peak of a submerged mountain. The colony was discovered on the Macquarie Ridge, south of New Zealand. Brittle Stars (Ophiuroidea), are closely related to starfish. The main difference is that they do not, like sea stars, depend on tube feet. Brittle stars move fairly rapidly by wriggling their arms which are highly flexible and enable the animals to make either snake-like or rowing movements. Using their five flexible arms (which may reach up to 60 centimeters in length on the largest specimens) they can crawl across