A preserved Antarctic strawberry feather star, or Promachocrinus fragarius. Courtesy Greg W. RouseResearchers discovered a new species of feather stars with 20 "arms."The species is part of the Antarctic feather stars group and is broadly related to starfish.Scientists named their discovery after a strawberry.Researchers trawling the ocean near Antarctica uncovered a new species that looks haunting in photos — but named it after a fruit.The Antarctic strawberry feather star is a sea creature with 20 so-called "arms" — some bumpy, some feathery — and can altogether be up to eight inches long, Greg Rouse, a marine biology professor at the University of California, San Diego, told Insider.Rouse co-authored the paper on the new species with researchers Emily McLaughlin and Nerid Wilson, publishing their findings in Invertebrate Systematics last month.The alien-like creature does not appear to look like a strawberry at first.
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