A new species of sea squirt, a kind of marine filter feeder, has been spotted in Japan. Scientists have named it after its resemblance to the giant panda.
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00:00 A new species of sea squirt, notable for its panda-like appearance, has been spotted off
00:05 the coast of a southern Japanese island.
00:08 A skeleton panda sea squirt has been known to divers in Kumejima since 2017, but scientists
00:14 only recently started studying it.
00:16 Its bone-like structures are actually blood vessels, though sea squirt specialists aren't
00:21 quite sure what purpose their black spots serve.
00:24 Sea squirts are marine filter feeders that can be found in shallow waters across the
00:29 cloak.
00:29 Okay.