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A new animal with 200 legs was just discovered, and it's sucking up deep sea trash
Conejeros-Vargas and his team named the new animal after Neil McDaniel, a Canadian naturalist who specializes in the study of sponges, corals, anemones - and of course, sea cucumbers. Like other ...
8 Animals that survive without brain
Crown-of-Thorns Starfish: This starfish specie uses a nerve ring and radial nerves to manage movement. Interestingly, these ...
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Underwater creatures: 5,000 new species found in the Pacific Ocean
like the abyssal sea cucumber. SMARTEX Project/ NERC It’s the first time a list like this has been made of what lives in this area - like this ping pong sponge. Now they know what does live ...
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Survey team heads for the Faroe-Shetland Sponge Belt
The first site is the Faroe-Shetland Sponge Belt, where sponges gather ... a rocky plateau where beds of sea spiders and sea cucumbers are found. Another site, the Rosemary Bank Seamount, is ...
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A pristine region of the Pacific Ocean targeted for deep-sea mining contains 5,000 new marine species, say scientists
The Natural History Museum says that the CCZ is home to a wide variety of species, including sea cucumbers, sponges, crustaceans, worms, "and even the odd fish." One of the incredible discoveries ...