As described in Dutch daily Leidsch Dagblad of 29 January 2007, Rita Caspers was walking on Noordwijk beach with her sister.
There, she found a rare sea animal, a sea mouse.
Not a real mouse: a worm, related to earthworms.
Its scientific name, Aphrodite, is derived from the Greek goddess of love.
Ms Caspers put the beached animal back into the sea.
On tapeworms (not close relatives): here.
I found a small creature in a cave at Bedruthen Steps in Cornwall. It looked like a giant woodlouse. (It was hard to see because it scuttled off so fast!) Later on in another cave I saw some tracks that looked like they would have been made by ‘it’. Because I had no idea what it was, I drew a picture of it and its tracks. Ilater descovered that it was a sea mouse.
Hi Lauren, good idea you drew that picture.