I woulda gone for whatever the Latin is of “Elder Things” or maybe “face hugger,” but that’s just me. A new species has been described… the fossil of a 430 million year old sea cucumber-ish critter with more than forty “tentacles.” Not exactly a giant: the tentacles/legs/whatever seemed to reach a maximum length of about 14 mm.

A new ophiocistioid with soft-tissue preservation from the Silurian Herefordshire Lagerstätte, and the evolution of the holothurian body plan