00:02This might look like something straight out of the movie Alien, but it's actually a newly
00:07discovered terrestrial creature from our very own planet. This is what marine researchers are now
00:12calling the Antarctic Strawberry Feather Star. It's a 20-armed sea creature, with some long and
00:17some short. The arms are also textured differently as well, with some of the arms featuring feathery
00:22structures while the others are bumpy. It was named the Strawberry Feather Star because if
00:26you remove its tentacles, its body is shaped like the red fruit. Each of the creature's myriad arms
00:31features a tiny claw that helps it stick to the seafloor. It's part of the Cronoidea family,
00:36which includes starfish and sea urchins, with these being found at depths as far down as 3,840 feet
00:43below the surface. Before finding this, experts thought there was only one species of Feather
00:48Star in existence. This one also has more than twice the number of extremities as the other
00:52Feather Star species discovered. However, researchers say they might have also found
00:56at least 4 new Feather Star species as part of this investigation as well, meaning this
01:01alien-looking creature might not be as rare as previously thought.
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