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‘Supergiant’ deep-sea creature found at fishing port is a new species — and a delicacy
The specimens were the bycatch of a fishing vessel in the South China Sea, which researchers later bought to study.
‘Gold rush’ threatens deep sea secrets
IN the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners, and huge numbers ...
Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about − by dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone
Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...
Scientific American21d
Stunning Antarctic Sea Creatures Discovered after Iceberg Breaks Away
A calving iceberg exposed a region that never before had been seen by human eyes, revealing a vibrant, thriving ecosystem ...
Phys.org26d
Race to name creatures of the deep as mining interest grows
It took Horton and a team of specialists a year to describe 27 of the hundred or more unnamed amphipods—a type of small crustacean ... using deep-sea mining as a cover story.
China To Build World's First Deep Sea Station By 2030; Here's What It Will Do
🇨🇳 China is constructing a groundbreaking deep-sea space station 2,000 meters beneath the South China Sea, set to be fully ...
The Spokesman-Review22d
Scientists find new species of life after iceberg breaks off Antarctica
No human had ever explored the deep sea there before ... Among the species potentially new to science are crustaceans, sea snails, worms and fish. It will take months of lab analysis to ...
Miami Herald10d
‘Supergiant’ deep-sea creature found at fishing port is a new species — and a delicacy
Photo by Huang M-C, Kawai T (2025) At a fishing port in Taiwan, researchers bought four giant crustaceans hauled in as bycatch by a trawling vessel in the South China Sea. The deep-sea dwellers ...