Scientists discover unknown 430 million year old sea creature

Science, British and American researchers have found a new species of animal discovered in a fossil of 430 million years old. The kind of would be related to the sea cucumber have that we know today, and was Sollasina cthulhu , named after the monster from the stories of H. P. Lovecraft.

The outward resemblance is there also. H. P. Lovecraft described Cthulhu as a (fictional) colossal monstrous deity with tentacles, that millions of years ago on earth came to be. The newly discovered species has only the size of a solid spin, she has also tentakelachtige nipples, they are about the bottom of the ocean moved, and food caught.

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The discovery was made by scientists from the universities of Yale, Oxford and Leicester, Imperial College London and University College London. They published a paper about that today appeared in the scientific journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.


The fossil was found in the English Herefordshire, on the border with Wales. There's Lagerstätte, a rock that is particularly well-preserved fossils it contains and in the past a treasure trove turned out to be fossilized ancient sea creatures. (read on below)