'Alien' Sea Creature With 100 Arms Found by Fisherman In Singapore Is A Basket Star

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'Alien' Sea Creature With 100 Arms Found by Fisherman In Singapore Is A Basket Star
This bizarre-looking 'alien' creature was caught by a deep sea fisherman in Singapore. Ong Han Boon, 54, was at his favourite fishing spot on the island of Sentosa where he cast his line with the hope of catching a fresh tasty treat for lunch. As he settled down with a few cans of his favourite beer, he noticed a pull, but he never expected what came up out of the sea. He said: "I spotted the line going up and down, and feeling a bit peckish I got quite excited as I hauled it in. "But when I pulled it out of the water I was completely flummoxed by what I was looking at." The creature appears to have up to 100 moving tentacle-like arms and can only be resembled to a cross between a starfish, an octopus and an alien monster. He added: "I’ve had quite a few odd things from come out of the ocean but I have never seen anything like this before in my life. It had all these arms waving around. "I thought it looked like an alien or some kind of mutant." Boon had posted his video of the bizarre creature online hoping that someone will be able to tell him what it is. "I’ve asked all my friends and none of them know and all my internet searches have not turned up anything that looks like this. "So, if no one can't identify it then I guess I’m right - it’s either an alien or I’ve discovered a new species of mutant sea creature. He added: "That would not surprise me with all the pollution they put in the water nowadays."
No, this writhing mass of tentacles caught off the Singapore coast is just a bizarre relative of the starfish. It may look like an alien, or even a monstrous moving plant, but this incredibly complex-looking creature is a relative of the starfish. The basket star (Gorgonocephalus caputmedusae) was caught off the coast of Singapore and continues to wave its arms after it is pulled out of water in this video. It actually has five arms, which are each split into more dexterous 'branchlets', which it uses to catch prey underwater. The creature can live around 6,564 ft (2 km) below the waves, but typically favours life between 50 ft (15 metres) and 500 feet (152 metres) below sea level, according to experts at Oregon State University. Despite being rarely seen, basket stars live along the Pacific Coast, from the Bering Sea to southern California. Basket stars have five arms radiating from a central disk, like other members of the echinoderm family, which includes starfish, sea urchins and brittle stars. But they differ from starfish, for example, because each arm branches out into countless flexible others, which can be used by the creature to create a tangled mesh designed to ensnare plankton and even small crustaceans. These flexible tendrils act like a basket to catch prey, giving the animal its name. They position themselves in a place where there is a current strong enough to cause small creatures to drift past it – without carrying the basket star away too. The basket star spreads its arms out to create as large a ‘basket’ as possible. It then grabs prey by coiling its tendrils around plankton and small animals.
Very little is known about the animal’s eating habits, but it is known that the spines and hooks on its arms, as well as mucus, make it hard for prey to escape its clutches. Experts at the university explained: ‘The basket star wraps several branchlets around its prey, forming a knot. This knotted arm is then drawn toward the central disk. ‘The manner in which food is transferred through the disk to be digested is not yet known.’ Basket stars can have a central disk that is five-and-a-half inches (14cm) in diameter and each of their arms can be up to five times longer than their body. They come in orange, red and white. Tags: 'Alien' sea creature with 100 arms found by fisherman moves like something out of your nightmares. 'Alien' sea creature with 100 arms and 'moves like something from a nightmare. ‘Alien’ Sea Creature With 100 Arms Discovered, New Species Or Martian? Alien Sea Creature With 100 Arms Caught By Fisherman. Fisherman catches 'alien' sea creature. Writhing 'Alien Sea Monster' with 100 Arms Caught by Singapore Fisherman. Bizarre 'alien' sea creature caught off Singapore. Alien Sea Creature With 100 Arms Caught off Singapore Coast. The discovery of a terrifying sea monster? No, this writhing mass of tentacles caught off the Singapore coast is just a bizarre relative of the starfish. Breaking News, Latest News, ABC, NBC, BBC, CNN, NDTV, Headlines Times, Now Discovery, Todays News, Upcoming News, USA Today, Latest USA News, NY News, New York Breaking News, Todays Headlines, World News, Latest World News, World Breaking News, Africa Latest News, Africa Breaking News, Fox News, Fox News Channel (TV Network), BBC News, Telegraph, DailyMail, BrisbaneTimes, Guardian, New Zealand Herald, Australian, MSCNBC

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