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Dozens (at least) of organisms have been named after Lord of the Rings lore: creatures, locations, Elvish words, and more.
But animals come in a huge range of sizes ... horseshoe crabs, crab lice, and king crabs. None of which are descended from Brachyurans and so none of which are actual crabs!
Biodiversity is depleted and large furrows still lie in the seabed where deep-sea mining equipment operated more than 40 years ago, in findings that suggest it will take the deep sea multiple ...
China has officially greenlit the creation of a new deep-sea research facility in the South China Sea, an important step for both scientific exploration and geopolitical strategy. Positioned 2,000 ...
Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...
BENGALURU: India’s first move towards deep sea exploration was successfully conducted by the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), Chennai. The maiden manned harbour trial of the much-a ...
A giant clone of bladderwrack seaweed, potentially the world's largest clone, has been identified in the Baltic Sea. This clone, spanning over 500 km, was previously mistaken for a separate species.