{"id":89406,"date":"2019-04-10T12:24:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T19:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/scientists-discover-ancient-cthulhu-fossil-that-will-give-you-nightmares"},"modified":"2019-04-10T12:24:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T19:24:59","slug":"scientists-discover-ancient-cthulhu-fossil-that-will-give-you-nightmares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/scientists-discover-ancient-cthulhu-fossil-that-will-give-you-nightmares","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover Ancient \u2018Cthulhu\u2019 Fossil That Will Give You Nightmares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-ancient-cthulhu-fossil-that-will-give-you-nightmares2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O,.,0.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Despite its diminutive size, the creature still managed to pack a lot of nightmare fuel. Those 45 tentacles were used to snatch up food, creep along the ocean floor and scare off predators.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and those \u201ctubes\u201d also had their own armor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tube feet of living echinoderms are naked, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yale.edu\/2019\/04\/09\/return-cthulhu-small-sea-critter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">but in the ophiocistioids they were plated<\/a>,\u201d Yale paleontologist Derek Briggs, a co-author of the study, said in a news release. \u201cOur analysis strongly suggests that ophiocistioids diverged from the line leading to modern sea cucumbers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/cthulhu-sea-fossil_n_5cad7dfee4b0e833aa330e5e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O,.,0. Despite its diminutive size, the creature still managed to pack a lot of nightmare fuel. Those 45 tentacles were used to snatch up food, creep along the ocean floor and scare off predators. Oh, and those \u201ctubes\u201d also had their own armor. \u201cThe tube feet of living echinoderms are naked, but in the ophiocistioids [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}