• Hegar
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    4810 hours ago

    He then exclaimed: "I have to look at such features as the shape of the teeth, the jaws, the shape of the gill rakers, as well as counts of the vertebrae [to determine what it is].

    "Now I have no idea what species this is.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/antarctica-scientists-find-bizarre-creature-3500m-under-ice-like-nothing-seen-before/ar-AA1qjVdA

    For anyone else who instantly needed to know more about this incredibly adorable little jiggler, it was found in the mud and no one seems to have a clue what it could be.

    • @[email protected]
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      146 hours ago

      “It will endure 300 times more pressure than we experience every day.”

      My heart goes out to you. Hang in there, jiggly creature.

    • @[email protected]
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      127 hours ago

      I wanted to see this thing in motion, so I tried to search up the youtube video, but no dice. Every article on it is just copy-pasted from the original on the Express site, and I can’t get the embedded video attached to it to work. I did find an article on NIWA’s site about a species of sea pig, which looks similar.

    • @MotoAsh
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      15 hours ago

      Trawling for their research!? What terrible biologists… Study an ecosystem by destroying it. Genius…