This is cool as researchers have found a new species of sea anemone living on the rotting carcass of a whale in the deep ocean.

The anemone, called Anthosactis pearseae, is small, white and roughly cube-shaped. It’s about the size of a human molar and even looks like a tooth with small tentacles on one side.

Whale fall as it’s called in the ocean research biz, are apparently stable communities on the ocean floor the revolve around a dead whale. New species of crabs, worms and fish have been found in these strange and specialized communities but this is the first anemone to be found living in them.

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