A recently discovered single-celled organism has been named after the Cthulhu, the massive winged monster with a head like a giant octupus conceived by H.P. Lovecraft in the 1920s. The newly ...

Readers of HP Lovecraft will be familiar with the name given to the author’s tentacled sea monster. This real cthulhu was quite different however, with 45 tentacle-like tube feet used to crawl ...