17-12-2024 11:00 via mashable.com

26,000 feet undersea, scientists find a ghostly predator

It dwells miles down, nearly freezing in perpetual darkness, equipped with numerous appendages to capture prey.Deep Sea biologists found a new animal some 26,000 feet (7,902 meters) underwater in the ocean's "hadal zone," named for the Greek god of the underworld, Hades. These researchers lowered baited traps into the Atacama Trench off of Chile, and brought up four individuals of a species now called Dulcibella camanchaca."Dulcibella camanchaca is a fast-swimming predator that we named after 'd
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