{"id":13840,"date":"2023-09-26T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/?p=13840"},"modified":"2023-09-05T09:39:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T15:39:35","slug":"this-terrifying-alien-like-creature-with-20-arms-was-just-found-in-the-depths-of-the-antarctic-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/this-terrifying-alien-like-creature-with-20-arms-was-just-found-in-the-depths-of-the-antarctic-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"This Terrifying Alien-Like Creature With 20 Arms Was Just Found In The Depths Of The Antarctic Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

All That’s Interesting.com<\/a> | By Austin Harvey | August 17, 2023 | Alien-Like Creature | More Blogs<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Promachocrinus fragarius<\/em>, or Antarctic strawberry feather star, sports around 20 feather-like arms for navigation and additional clawed tendrils used for crawling along the ocean floor, an alien-like creature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marine scientists have recently confirmed the existence of a new species of invertebrate living in the waters of Antarctica \u2014 a terrifying strawberry-like sea creature with 20 arms<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Named Promachocrinus fragarius<\/em>, or \u201cAntarctic strawberry feather star,\u201d this newly discovered sea creature\u2019s name might be something of a shock at first glance. Surely, it doesn\u2019t look much like a strawberry at all. But upon further inspection, the little nub at the base of its 20-something arms does indeed resemble the titular fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greg Rouse, a marine biology professor at the University of California, San Diego, co-authored the study chronicling the discovery of the Antarctic strawberry feather star. Speaking with Insider<\/a><\/em>, Rouse explained that in photographs, the team removed some of the creature\u2019s cirri \u2014 the smaller tentacle-like strings protruding from its base \u2014 to show off its strawberry-like shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve taken away a bunch of the cirri so you can see the parts that they\u2019re attached to, and that\u2019s what looks like a strawberry,\u201d he said. Rouse added that the cirri have small claws at the end, which allow them to hold on to the bottom of the seafloor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fragarius is from the Latin \u201cfragum,\u201d meaning strawberry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The creature\u2019s arms, meanwhile, are much longer and feathery. As the appendages are a bit more spread out, the creature is able to move elegantly through the ocean waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography published their findings in the journal Invertebrate Systematics<\/a><\/em> in July 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Technically, the Antarctic feather star falls under the Crinoidea class, placing it in the same category as starfish, sea urchins, sand dollars, and sea cucumbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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