New sea creature with 20 arms and strawberry-like body found in Antarctic waters

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New sea creature with 20 arms and strawberry-like body found in Antarctic waters
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The findings were published in a scientific journal on July 14. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Little Mermaid would have you believe that all undersea creatures are cute and cuddly, but reality is more akin to a horror novel by American writer H.P. Lovecraft, with the deep sea playing host to scary life forms.

They had conducted a series of expeditions to the Antarctic Ocean between 2008 and 2017 in hopes of determining if the Antarctic feather star – a relative of the starfish, sea urchin and sea cucumber – is a cryptic species. DNA collected from the samples caught indicated that there were actually more, with the Antarctic strawberry feather star in particular said to have a “purplish” to “dark-reddish” colour, and believed to live somewhere between 65m and 1,170m underwater.

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