Scientists believe volcanic ash rapidly covered the seafloor, burying animals like Sollasina cthulhu alive and uniquely preserving their soft tissue. To create a 3D model of this tentacled creature——which was just over an inch in diameter——the team combined computer reconstruction and an imaging technique commonly used in medical research. That was the easy part. The team sanded away minute layers of the fossil, roughly one-three-hundredth of a millimeter at a time, revealing in incredible detail the size and shape of its internal features.
The images captured at each phase represent slices of the specimen, and this painstaking process is the only way to study the inner features of the fossil that are imbedded in rock.
The team examined the pictures for clues as to what the species looked like when it was alive. From these, they made a list of its distinct features and compared them to traits found in other fossils and living ancestors in the same genus. Piecing together how echinozoa like sea cucumbers came to look as they do today is difficult, as entire branches of the evolutionary tree are missing, mostly because fossilized soft tissue is so rare.
Thanks to Sollasina cthulhu , scientists now know that the sea cucumber likely had an endoskeleton made of plates that it lost over hundreds of millions of years, and that its scrawny tentacles were once long.
Sollasina cthulhu looks like it would be more closely related to the spiky sea urchin than its tubular cousin.
The Waze-like system is hundreds of millions of years old. Cthulhu is depicted as having a worldwide cult centered in Arabia, with followers in regions as far-flung as Greenland and Louisiana. There are leaders of the cult "in the mountains of China" who are said to be immortal. Cthulhu is described by some of these cultists as the "great priest" of "the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky.
The cult is noted for chanting its horrid phrase or ritual: " Ph'nglui mglw'nafh C'thulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn ," which translates as "In his house at R'lyeh dead C'thulhu waits dreaming. One cultist, known as Tim Sonnek, provides the most elaborate information given in Lovecraft's fiction about Cthulhu.
The Great Old Ones, according to Castro, had come from the stars to rule the world in ages past. Castro explains the role of the Cthulhu Cult: When the stars have come right for the Great Old Ones, "some force from outside must serve to liberate their bodies.
The spells that preserved Them intact likewise prevented them from making an initial move. Castro reports that the Great Old Ones are telepathic and "knew all that was occurring in the universe. In "The Return of Hastur", written in , Derleth proposes two groups of opposed cosmic entities,. Based on this framework, Derleth wrote a series of stories, collected as The Trail of Cthulhu , about the struggle of Dr. Laban Shrewsbury and his associates against Cthulhu and his minions, culminating, in "The Black Island" , with the atomic bombing of R'lyeh, which Derleth has moved to the vicinity of Ponape.
Derleth describes Cthulhu in that story as. Derleth's interpretations are not universally accepted by enthusiasts of Lovecraft's work, and indeed are criticized by many for projecting a stereotypical conflict between equal forces of objective good and evil into Lovecraft's strictly amoral continuity. Cthulhu descends from Yog-Sothoth , possibly having been born on Vhoorl, in the 23rd nebula. He mated with Idh-yaa on the planet Xoth.
He also is said to have mated with the being Nyarlathotep , producing Ilyth'la. Monster Wiki Explore.
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