29-02-2020 11:03 via nme.com

A new sea creature has been named after Metallica

A new deep-sea creature has been named after Metallica, the band have announced.
The Macrostylis metallicola is a worm-like creature that lives in the Clarion Clipperton Zone off the coast of Hawaii, at depths where the pressure is 400 times greater than that of the earth’s atmosphere.
According to doctors Torben Riehl and Bart De Smet, who discovered the new creature, named it after the band due to specific details of their habitat.
“We’ve played on all seven continents, made
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