Deep below the surface of the ocean in the South China Sea, a robot named “discovery” searched the seafloor for life. Faxian, ...
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New species of shark, sea butterfly, mud dragon, bamboo coral, water bear, octocoral, and shrimp were just some of the marine ...
The sponge's branching limbs are covered in tiny, barbed hooks, which act like Velcro to capture passing prey, mainly copepods and other small crustaceans ...
Glass sponges (Hexactinellida) are deep-sea animals with silica-based ... These sharks can live up to 500 years and are considered in the list of the top predators. These sharks weigh 1,000 ...
A guitar-shaped shark, a fan-like coral and a venomous deep-sea snail equipped with harpoon ... she is participating would add more new species to the list — including what she suspected was ...
Animals living in one of Earth’s most extreme ... how the ecosystem functions. “Deep-sea benthic communities have often been seen as low in diversity and biomass due to harsh conditions ...