Force me to shut off my ad blocker before being able to view your site content? Nope, fuck you Miami Herald. A better link would have been nice for this curiosity. Here it is (lots of tracking but at least it doesn't block content because of ad blockers): https://gizmodo.com/antarctic-strawberry-feather-star-20-arm...

Edit: Also, to lower the drama a bit, it's part of a well-known genus that has five known species to it.

> Researchers named the new species after the Latin word for “strawberry” because of the “resemblance of the (body) shape… to a strawberry.”

When you’ve spent too much time in Antarctica and forgotten what a strawberry looks like…

Right? I was thinking maybe they were making a joke. Looks like some kind of skeletal spider cucumber to me.

Photos included! It looks quite creepy. Anyone who played The Forest or its sequel got flashbacks looking at those limbs.

Sadly lacking info on how big it is.

Arms up to 8" long. Can wrap over a person's face pretty well. Sweet dreams.

Facehugger

AI can do wonders those days. Especially when you need more profits.

Oh no, Calvin really did make it to Earth. We are doomed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_(2017_film)

Looks like combination of jellyfish (shape) and insect (structure).

"It tastes like chicken!" -all octopuses

I want to see an animation of it moving, or preying on something.

They are working on it. The processors rendering it are quiet slow.