Article: A CREATURE IN A CLASS BY ITSELF.(MAIN)

Byline: BOYCE RENSBERGER Washington Post

Danish biologists have discovered a new kind of animal so different from all other known life forms that they say it represents not just a new species but an entire new phylum, the much larger classification just below that of kingdom.

There are about 1.3 million known species in the animal kingdom, and newly discovered ones are added to the list every day. But they all belong to only about 35 known phyla, and it's been 13 years since the last new one was recognized.

The bottle-shaped creature's body plan and life cycle are so bizarre that they resemble nothing else known to science, according to a ...

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