Image courtesy of credit: Jay Black/University of Melbourne.
Joel Kontinen
An eight-armed, pig-snouted brittle star found in the depths of the South Pacific has roots reaching back to the days of the dinosaurs.
The brittle star, which has a body just 3 centimeters or 1..1 inch in diameter and arms approximately 6 cm or 3 inches long, represents a completely new family of these starfish relatives — one with members dating back 180 million years, to Jurassic period
The britte star shows it followers the Genesis order of things, It hasn’t changed much in millions of years.
Source:
Pappas, Stephanie. 2021. Living fossil with arms made of 'pig snouts' discovered in the South Pacific Live Science 28 June.
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