Race to name creatures of the deep as mining interest grows
In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners—and huge numbers ...
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866 New Species Discovered in the Ocean ... Including Guitar Shark
The exhaustive research has been conducted as part of the Nippon Foundation Nekton Ocean Census. Launched in April 2023, the ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN3d
From a Guitar Shark to an Octocoral, Scientists Discover More Than 800 Marine Species
Scientists have identified 866 new species as part of the Ocean Census, a global mission to protect and accelerate the ...
Dolphin To Penguin: 7 Smartest Animal Species Of The Ocean
Penguins are small marine animals but have an extremely smart functioning brain which helps them in their survival. Sea Lions ...
‘Fragile’ deep-sea creature — with 20 tentacles — discovered as new species in Pacific
Deep below the surface of the ocean in the South China Sea, a robot named “discovery” searched the seafloor for life. Faxian, ...
Scripps News20d
Name a New Species
This new species of Themis scaleworm (Polynoidae, a group of annelid worms) was collected at 1800 m depth in Monterey Submarine Canyon at a whale fall, where the remains of a deceased whale support a ...
Miami Herald on MSN18d
Orange deep-sea creature — with ‘dense’ eyelashes — discovered as new species
Researchers said they named the new species after Cocos Island, also known as Isla del Coco, where it was first discovered ...
Deep-sea creature — waiting in ‘glass sponges’ to ambush — is new species in Pacific
Eunice siphoninsidiator, or the tube ambushing marine bristle worm, was discovered within the structure of glass sponges by a ...