Sollasina cthulhu from the Coalbrookdale Formation of the Silurian Herefordshire Lagerstätte in England was named after H. P. Lovecraft 's Cthulhu Mythos. [1][4] The fossil was 3 cm wide, and the animal was likely the size of a large spider, with 45 tentacle-like tube feet. [5][6]

Apr 9, 2019 · They named the creature Sollasina cthulhu, after H.P. Lovecraft’s tentacled monster, Cthulhu. A study announcing the discovery appears April 10 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The new cthulhu, Sollasina, had 45 tentacle-like tube feet, which it used to crawl along the ocean floor and capture food. The creature was small ...

Apr 9, 2019 · Researchers have discovered an exceptionally well preserved fossil in 430 million-year-old rocks representing a new species of primitive sea cucumber, which they have named...

Apr 9, 2019 · They named the animal Sollasina cthulhu due to its resemblance to monsters from the fictional Cthulhu universe created by author H.P. Lovecraft. Although the fossil is just 3 cm wide, its many...

Apr 11, 2019 · Cthulhu is a lot smaller than H.P. Lovecraft described him, at least according to a group of paleontologists who recently bestowed the name on a 3 centimeter (1.18 inch) wide extinct sea...

Apr 10, 2019 · Palaeontologists have described a new species of extinct sea cucumber that resembles a mess of tentacles, earning it the scientific name of Sollasina cthulhu, in honor of H.P. Lovecraft's...

Apr 16, 2019 · For first author and Oxford Museum of Natural History Deputy Head of Research Iman Rahman, Sollasina’s digital recreation reminded him of the H.P. Lovecraft sea monster called Cthulhu that is said to one day rise from his ancient sunken city in the Pacific Ocean to …

Apr 10, 2019 · Researchers have identified a 430 million-year-old fossil as a new species related to living sea cucumbers. They named the creature Sollasina cthulhu, after HP Lovecraft’s tentacled monster,...

Palaeontologists from the UK and USA created an accurate 3D computer reconstruction of the 430 million-year-old fossil which allowed them to identify it as a species new to science. They named the animal Sollasina cthulhu due to its resemblance to monsters from the fictional Cthulhu universe created by author H.P. Lovecraft.

Apr 10, 2019 · The researchers performed a 3D reconstruction of the 430-million-year-old fossil, which they named Sollasina cthulhu, finding that it is more closely related to sea cucumbers than sea urchins.