2023-08-25 06:00:10
In the freezing depths of the Antarctic Ocean, researchers have discovered a startling creature with twenty finger-like tentacles ending in a feather shape, and a strawberry-shaped body.
The animal has a head reminiscent of a strawberry.
Image credit: McLaughlin, Wilson and Rouse
Evoking an extraterrestrial creature, Promachocrinus fragarius is one of the four new species of crinoids discovered at the bottom of the ocean (Oceans stylized Ωceans is a French documentary directed by…). These mysterious animals, perfectly symmetrical, include sea lilies (Lilies or lilies are herbaceous plants of the Liliaceae family belonging to the genus…) (The term sea covers several realities.) and sea feathers. lilies attach themselves to the sea floor by a stem (The stem is in plants, the axis generally aerial, which prolongs the root and …), while the feathers, as they grow, detach to float with synchronized movements of their arms.
Before this discovery, it was thought that only one species of feather (A feather is, in birds, a complex integumentary production consisting of…) of the sea lived in Antarctica (Antarctica (pronounced [ɑ̃.taʁk.tik] Listen) is the most…) continent: Promachocrinus kerguelensis. However, this research (Scientific research designates in the first place all the actions undertaken with a view to…) shows that eight species of these strange beings inhabit the waters around (Autour is the name that the avian nomenclature in the French language (put update) gives…) of this continent (The word continent comes from the Latin continere to “hold together”, or continens…), at depths ranging from 100 to 1,000 meters.
To identify these new animals with colors ranging from purple to dark red (The color red has different definitions, depending on the chromatic system we do…), scientists took samples from the Southern Ocean (The Southern Ocean or Antarctic Ocean or icy Antarctic Ocean is the body of water which…). Following a DNA analysis, they classified these creatures into four new species.
The twenty-armed animal swims with rhythmic pulsations.
Image credit: Gregory W. Rouse
Examining specimens collected between 2008 and 2017 believed to be P. kerguelensis, they discovered four more, bringing the total to eight. While swimming, these creatures spread their arms, capturing the plankton (Homer designated the animals wandering on the surface of the waves by plankton, from the Greek…) with thousands of mucilaginous filaments.
Crinoids once ruled our oceans, but a great extinction around 251 million years ago wiped out most of them.
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