{
  "id": 18185145,
  "title": "Newly Discovered Brittle Star Species Found Beside a 9.5-Million-Year-Old Whale Fall",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/04/newly-discovered-brittle-star-species-found-beside-a-9-5-million-year",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-04T21:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Discover Magazine",
    "slug": "discover-magazine",
    "url": "https://www.discovermagazine.com/newly-discovered-brittle-star-species-found-beside-a-9-5-million-year-old-whale-fall-49901"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A new brittle star species, Ophiura huebnerjenseni, was discovered alongside a 9.5-million-year-old whale carcass in Denmark. The tiny skeletal plates from the previously unknown marine creature were found hidden in the sediment near the bones during an excavation of a beaked whale's jaw and vertebrae in Gram Clay Pit. Researchers believe the site represents a shallow-water whale fall, which provided an abundant food source for opportunistic animals, as the fossil findings suggest.",
  "summary": "Learn more about a new species of brittle star found beside a 9.5-million-year-old whale carcass in Denmark.",
  "key_points": [
    "New brittle star species Ophiura huebnerjenseni discovered",
    "Found near 9.5-million-year-old whale carcass in Denmark",
    "Site likely shallow-water whale fall providing abundant food"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}