Footage courtesy of Matthew Underwater, check out their Instagram here: https://bit.ly/38Mu4Jd This beautiful bundle of floating feathers is actually an animal known as a crinoid, or “feather star”. As youngsters, these creatures grow on a stem which anchors them to the sea floor, but some adults, like the one in this video, detach and float away. These striking creatures can live at depths of 9km underwater, where they spend their time flailing their sticky, mucus-covered arms (feathers) in ord