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You Have to Check Out This Weird Alien-Looking Creature Living at the Bottom of the Ocean
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9 months ago
This might look like something straight out of the movie Alien, but it’s actually a newly discovered terrestrial creature from our very own planet. This is what marine researchers are now calling the Antarctic strawberry feather star.
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This might look like something straight out of the movie Alien, but it's actually a newly
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discovered terrestrial creature from our very own planet.
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This is what marine researchers are now calling the Antarctic Strawberry Feather Star.
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It's a 20 armed sea creature, with some long and some short.
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The arms are also textured differently as well, with some of the arms featuring feathery
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structures while the others are bumpy.
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It was named the Strawberry Feather Star because if you remove its tentacles, its body is shaped
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like the red fruit.
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Each of the creature's myriad arms features a tiny claw that helps it stick to the seafloor.
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It's part of the crinoidia family, which includes starfish and sea urchins, with these being
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found at depths as far down as 3,840 feet below the surface.
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Before finding this, experts thought there was only one species of feather star in existence.
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This one also has more than twice the number of extremities as the other feather star species
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discovered.
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However, researchers say they might have also found at least four new feather star species
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as part of this investigation as well, meaning this alien-looking creature might not be as
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rare as previously thought.
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