Two children have found "rare" specimens of a fossilised sea creature at the Cotswold Water Park.

BBC: Children discover 'rare' fossils at Cotswold Water Park

Then he rises, like some weird sea creature from the deep, his pupils disappear, and he somehow makes his hair bristle like quills.

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In scientific terms, probably the most significant effect of the Sea Empress spill has been felt by a tiny creature known as the brooding cushion-star, or Asterina phylactica to those in the know.

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