A new species of sea anemone has been discovered in the Pacific Ocean by University of Ohio researchers. The sea anemone was discovered inside the mouth of a dead whale. It looks a bit like a human molar tooth
Dr Meg Daly has named the new species Anthosactis pearseae. She's not sure how old it is because sea anemones live for hundreds of years. Dr Daly works as assistant professor of evolution, ecology and organismal biology at Ohio State University and runs one of the world's few laboratories that are specialized in studying sea anemones.
Source: http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/newanem.htm
Dr Meg Daly has named the new species Anthosactis pearseae. She's not sure how old it is because sea anemones live for hundreds of years. Dr Daly works as assistant professor of evolution, ecology and organismal biology at Ohio State University and runs one of the world's few laboratories that are specialized in studying sea anemones.
Source: http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/newanem.htm
Image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Haeckel_Actiniae.jpg
The 49th plate from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur of 1904, showing various sea anemones classified as Actiniae.
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