Scientists have found one of human's earliest ancestors 12,000 feet deep under the ocean - a weird pink worm named after a doughnut.
The four-inch (10 cm) long Xenoturbella churro - named for its resemblance to the popular fried-dough pastry - is one of four species discovered 1,700 metre deep in the Gulf of California.
Previously Xenoturbeklla was only known from a single species found in the North Atlantic, puzzling biologists for almost six decades.
Now expeditions half a world away by scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at California University in San Diego, the Western Australia Museum and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) have helped properly=READ MORE=http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/scientists-discover-one-humans-earliest-7303384
Sunday 7 February 2016
Scientists discover one of human's earliest ancestors - and it's a worm named after a doughnut
Scientists have found one of human's earliest ancestors 12,000 feet deep under the ocean - a weird pink worm named after a doughnut.
The four-inch (10 cm) long Xenoturbella churro - named for its resemblance to the popular fried-dough pastry - is one of four species discovered 1,700 metre deep in the Gulf of California.
Previously Xenoturbeklla was only known from a single species found in the North Atlantic, puzzling biologists for almost six decades.
Now expeditions half a world away by scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at California University in San Diego, the Western Australia Museum and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) have helped properly=READ MORE=http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/scientists-discover-one-humans-earliest-7303384
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment