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Scientists discover 30 new species in Galapagos depths:
An international team of marine scientists have discovered 30 new species of invertebrates in deep water surrounding the Galapagos, the Ecuadoran archipelago's national park authorities announced Monday.
[...] Scientists from the CDF [Charles Darwin Foundation], in collaboration with the National Park Directorate and the Ocean Exploration Trust, probed deep-sea ecosystems at depths of up to 3,400 meters using state-of-the-art Remote Operated Vehicles (ROVs).
The two ROVs, Argus and Hercules, were operated from the 64-meter exploration vessel Nautilus, which carried out the deep-sea probe in 2015.
How many more undiscovered species wait in the deep?
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Wow! Look!! A stray meatball!! Let's interview it!
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday August 20 2020, @10:15PM (1 child)
Once the Chinese fishing fleets have taken all the large predators, the world's oceans will be back to a time 500 million years ago when jellyfish were the dominant species. We are not too far away from that now.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday August 20 2020, @10:51PM
Anything that eats jellyfish will be in good shape - like the carboniferous period before there were fungi that could decompose wood, that won't happen again unless ALL the fungi are eradicated- they'll re-spread, fast breeding jellyfish eaters are probably all over just waiting for their moment...
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