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Scientists Discover a New Crustacean Species in One of the Hottest Places on Earth

posted by martyb on Sunday September 20 2020, @01:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the freeze^W-heat-dried-shrimp dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:

Scientists discover a new crustacean species in one of the hottest places on Earth:

[...] The lake in which this delicate crustacean was found is a temporary thing. Shallow pools of water are formed in parts of the desert by seasonal floods after spring rainfall. Annual precipitation in the region never exceeds more than 30 mm [~1.2 in] per year, and there are no bodies of water that are there year-round.

[...] Co-author Dr. Martin Schwentner, a crustacean specialist from the Natural History Museum of Vienna, explained that these species are designed for this.

"These Crustaceans are able to survive for decades in the dried-out sediment and will hatch in an upcoming wet season, when the aquatic habitat refills," he said in the press release. "They are perfectly adapted to live in desert environments. Their ability to survive even in the Lut desert highlights their resilience."

[...] Recently, that temperature has risen, with the most recent satellite temperature measurements clocking in at 80.8 degrees Celsius [~177 °F] on the surface.

[...] The air temperature in the region, while not as scorching as the ground itself, is also up there, reaching more than 50 degrees Celsius [122 °F] in the summer.

The larger female of the new species is around three centimetres [~1.2 in] long, while the male specimen is around 2.25 cm [~0.9 in]. Its lack of pigmentation makes it appear almost like a ghost.

Journal Reference:Martin Schwentner, Alexander V. Rudov & Hossein Rajaei. Some like it hot: Phallocryptus fahimii sp. n. (Crustacea: Anostraca: Thamnocephalidae) from the Lut desert, the hottest place on Earth, (2020) Zoology in the Middle East, DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2020.1805139

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  • (Score: -1, Redundant) by HammeredGlass on Sunday September 20 2020, @01:49AM (2 children)

    by HammeredGlass (12241) on Sunday September 20 2020, @01:49AM (#1053773)

    So we don't know what they do or don't look like.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 20 2020, @08:05AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 20 2020, @08:05AM (#1053874)
      Maybe you have some sort of brain damage but plenty of other people are able to know what Mickey Mouse or Tom and Jerry look like.

  • (Score: 1, Troll) by fakefuck39 on Sunday September 20 2020, @07:01AM

    by fakefuck39 (6620) on Sunday September 20 2020, @07:01AM (#1053858)

    so first global warming kills the sea otters, now the soft shell crabs have to live in the hottest places on earth? what's next -the waterbear? we gotta stop all these cow-based methene emissions and switch to nukular cows to save the planet, or we'll have ass hairs with dry crusty shit on them.

    this is probably methane bs though. Hossein Rajaei? we're goung to listen to a terrorist now?

  • (Score: 2) by drussell on Sunday September 20 2020, @09:57AM (1 child)

    by drussell (2678) on Sunday September 20 2020, @09:57AM (#1053885) Journal

    "These Crustaceans are able to survive for decades in the dried-out sediment and will hatch in an upcoming wet season, when the aquatic habitat refills," he said in the press release. "They are perfectly adapted to live in desert environments. Their ability to survive even in the Lut desert highlights their resilience."

    [...] Recently, that temperature has risen, with the most recent satellite temperature measurements clocking in at 80.8 degrees Celsius [~177 °F] on the surface.

    If men are from Mars, maybe it's actually crustaceansthat are from Venus, not Women... Who knew? :)

    (Which begs the question, where are the women-folk actually from then? But that's another topic...)

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 20 2020, @01:52PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 20 2020, @01:52PM (#1053922)

      (Which begs the question, where are the women-folk actually from then? But that's another topic...)

      NOT from your mom's basement. Nor do they ever go there.

      So if you want to meet some women someday, you know what you have to do.

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