Bizarre marine animal is recorded on video

Really the ocean is a very mysterious place for us humans. Despite all the technological advances and even going to the moon, we do not know exactly what lurks in the depths and obscure kilometers of the seas.

Maybe something like Cthulhu himself, being mythological of HP Lovecraft's horror tales (image of him at the top of the text) or creatures as terrifying as he might exist?

With that in mind, Facebook user Jr Saim couldn't miss a strange and atypical animal that ran into the boat he was on. After some research, it was identified that the aquatic animal in question is part of the group of basket stars (or brittle stars), the echinoderm phylum and is an excessively large specimen of the species.

Not exactly a starfish

This type of animal cannot be confused with starfish, which are slightly similar to them. Importantly, although basket stars are related to sea stars, they are completely different from other star types and have evolved separately for over 500 million years, as they are of the Ophiuroidea class.

For example, unlike starfish, all vital organs are in the central disk that has five long flexible legs that reach over 60 centimeters.

It is not because we are mammals that we are similar to other mammalian animals, such as dogs, horses, bats, among many others - the thinking is the same. View a GIF below the strange creature or click here to see the full video on Jr Saim's Facebook profile.