'Ausichicrinites zelenskyyi' is closely related to sea stars, sea cucumbers, and sea urchins.
It was a type of feather star, which are abundant today on rocky bottoms from the Equator to the poles.A 150 million-year-old marine invertebrate unearthed in Africa has been named Ausichicrinites zelenskyyi - after Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky. The bizarre creature had 10 long arms and sharp tentacle-like claws to grip the seabed.
Their appendages are used to catch food, making the animals filter feeders. They sit in the water, expose their arms, and let nutrients moved by the current come to them. Salamon said:"The specimen shows evidence of regeneration, which reinforces the hypothesis about the importance of predation in the evolution of feather stars."was about 2 inches in diameter. Its almost complete remains were dug up at a site in central western Ethiopia.
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