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Antarctic Strawberry Feather Star
August 25 , 2023
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- Researchers have discovered an otherworldly, 20-tentacled creature in Antarctic Ocean.
- This is one of four new species of crinoids that scientists found at the bottom of the ocean.
- The Antarctic strawberry feather star gets its name from the strawberry-like nub on its body.
- Crinoids like these dominated the young seas of our planet.
- But they were largely wiped out — along with 95% of life on Earth — during the Permian mass extinction roughly 251 million years ago.
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