{"id":18245,"date":"2014-09-04T06:49:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T06:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/research\/scientists-discover-new-genus-of-sea-creatures-dendrogramma\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T16:42:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T16:42:56","slug":"scientists-discover-new-genus-of-sea-creatures-dendrogramma","status":"publish","type":"research","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/scientists-discover-new-genus-of-sea-creatures-dendrogramma","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover new genus of sea creatures\u2014Dendrogramma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">A zoologist at the Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, Jean Just, discovered sea creatures in the Tasman Sea that cannot be classified into any known major phyla. These invertebrate creatures\u2014now classified as <em>Dendrogramma<\/em>\u2014are mushroom-shaped, multicellular, asymmetrical, and have a mushroom-shaped layer between the inner and the outer body. They seem to have morphological similarities to jellyfish and comb jellies. <em>Dendrogramma<\/em> is also similar to a small group of &#8216;medusoids,&#8217; jellyfish-like creatures, which lived 600 million years ago during the Ediacaran period. Thus, these creatures could be descendants of the Ediacara organisms, which were thought to be extinct over 500 million years ago. Developmental biologists feel such animal lineages can help gather information about ancient mass extinction events and reconstruct the course of evolution.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Read more in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/sea-creatures-add-branch-to-tree-of-life-1.15833\"><em>Nature<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":33313,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"new_tags":[],"series":[],"subject":[2868],"class_list":["post-18245","research","type-research","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","subject-plant-and-animal-science"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Scientists discover new genus of sea creatures\u2014Dendrogramma | Editage Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A zoologist at the Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, Jean Just, discovered sea creatures in the Tasman Sea that cannot be classified into any known major phyla. 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