A tiny fossil of a marine creature thought to have been extinct has been found alive in New Zealand waters. The sea animal, which forms a network of colonies inside sea worms, was discovered by scientists at New Zealand's government marine agency NIWA, London's Natural History Museum the University of Oslo. "Finding tiny polyps with tentacles protruding from the network of holes confirmed what paleontologists had suspected, that Protulophila is a colonial hydroid related to corals and sea anemones. Protulophila, which is related to corals and sea anemones, appeared in the fossil record about 170 million years ago in Europe and the Middle East.
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