This deep-sea creature is long-armed, bristling with teeth, and the sole survivor of 180 million years of evolution

  • Written by: Tim O'Hara, Senior Curator of Marine Invertebrates, Museums Victoria
This deep-sea creature is long-armed, bristling with teeth, and the sole survivor of 180 million years of evolutionC. Harding/Museums Victoria, Author provided

Let me introduce you to Ophiojura, a bizarre deep-sea animal found in 2011 by scientists from the French Natural History Museum, while trawling the summit of a secluded seamount called Banc Durand, 500 metres below the waves and 200 kilometres east of New Caledonia in the southwest Pacific Ocean.

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