Published 15:26 IST, June 24th 2020
Rare creature slithering towards ocean spotted, baffled netizens ask 'is it snake?'
The unornamented smooth snake-like arms confused the internet that immediately took to guessing the strange creature as spider man or an ex.
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A foot of a rare marine creature with five symmetrical limbs sliring towards ocean on a rock has befuddled internet. Shared on Twitter by a user named Lydia Raley, 31 seconds clip portrays a brown, roughly textured species with a centrally located disc body from which tentacles protruded in a Penta-radial symmetry. urnamented smooth snake-like arms confused internet that immediately took to guessing strange creature viewing foot over 295.2k times.
“It’s t a labradoodle. That’s for dang sure, "wrote a commenter, that sparked several such hilarious reactions in comments section.” It’s Snake Voltron where 5 snakes combine to fight those evil mongooses,” joked or. “That is a pe rope. A danger odle,” wrote third, while one or added, that's five danger odles “sharing a hat.” Ar user shared a comical gif of a Llama sprinting with a comment, “If that’s what’s coming in July I’m out.” While some mocked hilarity at unique creature depicted in video, ors more sensibly guessed what could it be. “It's actually a starfish,” a user said. “Brittle star... Type of starfish,” added ors.
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Species belongs to a Class Ophiuroidea
As netizens poured dozens of awkward guesses like “ bad guy from spiderman” and “an ex on social media”, creature was actually correctly guessed by a few to be a serpent star, a type of brittle stars with smooth discs and rows of snake line projections coming off ir center. species belongs to a Class Ophiuroidea, with long, wriggling arms that makes m voracious scavengers or filter feeders. Unlike ir sister starfish, snake or brittle stars make one of tentacles joined to a central disk as ir head and have ability to see with eyes. Here’s a clip that depicts ir nature as one of brittle stars devour a squid alive.
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15:26 IST, June 24th 2020