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Origin of mystery deep-sea mushroom revealed
2016-06-07 10:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Australian scientists have used genetic material to pinpoint the origin of the deep-sea mushroom, an unusual gelatinous creature first dredged up near Tasmania in 1986. The organisms have a cylindrical stalk capped by a flat, semi-transparent disc that houses visible channels branching outwards. These channels, which resemble tree-like diagrams known as dendrograms, are the basis for its scientific name - Dendrogramma. The original specimens were described for the first time in 2014 by a...
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