Scientists Find 155 Million Year Old Starfish Like Creature That Cloned Itself

Science Alert According to this, it was found buried in limestone rock. Researchers say this is the only known specimen of a new star-like species. Scientists have named it Ophiactis hex. It has been told that it was a creature with amazing abilities. It had the ability to clone. It could produce its own copy from any part of its body. This process is called fissiparity.

This discovery is very important. Because scientists still did not know when the process of fission had occurred for the first time. This 155 million year old fossil has been kept in such a safe manner that all its hook-shaped arms are clearly visible, on which small thorn-like structures are also visible.

According to Dr Thuy, who was associated with the study, it is common in the fossil record to find skeletons of ophiuroids with multiple arms in the process of regeneration, but fossils that regenerate their own bodies are very rare.

Nature itself is very mysterious. Scientists doing marine research are still finding such creatures in the sea which were never seen before and there is no record about them. Similarly, there must have been many such creatures in the history of the Earth about whom we are yet to know.