'Sea Anemone' Gets Reclassified as a New Kind of Animal
Sunday, May 18, 2014 - 15:30
in Biology & Nature
Lurking in the deep sea is a marine creature thought to be one of the world's largest sea anemones. But new research suggests that the monster, which has tentacles measuring more than 6 feet (2 meters) long, isn't an anemone but rather the first known organism in a new order of animals.