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Encyclopedia > Eltanin Antenna
Cladorhiza
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Poecilosclerida
Family: Cladorhizidae
Genus: Cladorhiza
Species

C. concrescens
Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Phyla Subkingdom Parazoa Porifera (sponges) Subkingdom Agnotozoa Placozoa Orthonectida Rhombozoa Subkingdom Metazoa Radiata Cnidaria Ctenophora - Comb jellies Bilateria Protostomia Acoelomorpha Platyhelminthes - Flatworms Nemertina - Ribbon worms Gastrotricha Gnathostomulida - Jawed worms Micrognathozoa Rotifera - Rotifers Acanthocephala Priapulida Kinorhyncha Loricifera Entoprocta Nematoda - Roundworms Nematomorpha - Horsehair worms Cycliophora Mollusca - Mollusks Sipuncula - Peanut worms Annelida - Segmented... This article is about the animal. ... Demosponges are the largest class of Phylum Porifera. ... In biology, a species is a kind of organism. ...

Eltanin Antenna is the name popularly given to an unusual sponge photographed on the sea floor by the Antarctic oceanographic research ship USNS Eltanin in 1964. This article is about the animal. ... Greek ἀνταρκτικός, opposite the arctic) is a continent surrounding the Earths South Pole. ... This is a list of auxiliaries of the United States Navy. ...


Due to its regular antenna-like structure and upright position on the seafloor at a depth of 13,500 feet, various New Age writers asserted that it must have been a bit of advanced technology left from a forgotten high-tech civilization, brought to earth by aliens, or even brought back from the future by our own descendents. However, it is readily identified as a living example of the sponge Cladorhiza concrescens first identified in a dredged-up sample by Alexander Agassiz in 1888. In biology, antenna (plural: antennae) refers to the sensing organs of several arthropods. ... New Age describes a broad movement characterized by alternative approaches to traditional Western culture. ... Extraterrestrial life is life that exist and originate outside our planet Earth. ... Alexander Agassiz Alexander Emanuel Agassiz (December 17, 1835 – March 27, 1910), son of Louis Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer. ...


See also

Written by a girl called Ben, Modified by Wikipedia contributors, published by Wikimedia The apparent lack of anachronisms is often used as evidence against the possibility of time travel. ...

References

  • Brookesmith, Peter (2004). "The Eltanin Enigma (http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/183_eltanin1.shtml)". Fortean Times issue 183. Retrieved April 8, 2005.
  • Hatch, Larry (2005). "The Eltanin Antenna Identified! (http://www.larryhatch.net/ELTANIN.html)". Retrieved April 8, 2005.
  • "The Empty Quarter of the Sea (http://www.larryhatch.net/EMPTYQ.html)". Map showing where the Eltanin photograph was taken. Retrieved April 8, 2005.


 

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