Sunday 21 July 2013

Here's Waldo! Strange New Clam Species Is Found

A strange creature with a delicate, translucent shell and long, slender tentacles has been recognized as a new species, researchers say.

The unusual beast, Waldo arthuri, is a type of tiny clam that lurks among the spines of sea urchins.

It was discovered independently by marine invertebrate zoologists Paul Valentich-Scott of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History in California and Diarmaid Ó Foighil of the University of Michigan. Valentich-Scott stumbled upon his odd specimens off the coast of Santa Barbara and in Morro Bay, Calif., while Ó Foighil unearthed his while trawling for life off Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

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