Deep sea 'mushroom'
may be new branch of life
By Paul Rincon Science editor, BBC News website
A mushroom-shaped sea animal discovered off the
Australian coast has defied classification in the tree of life.A team of
scientists at the University of Copenhagen says the tiny organism does not fit
into any of the known subdivisions of the animal kingdom.Such a situation has
occurred only a handful of times in the last 100 years.The organisms, which
were originally collected in 1986, are described in the academic journal
Plos One.The authors of the article note several similarities with the
bizarre and enigmatic soft-bodied life forms that lived between 635 and 540
million years ago - the span of Earth history known as the Ediacaran Period.
Read rest see pics here :http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29054889
Always good news for cryptozoologists. Means there are more to be discovered.
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