Allow me introduce you to Ophiojura, a bizarre deep-sea animal observed in 2011 by scientists from the French Pure Record Museum, although trawling the summit of a secluded seamount termed Banc Durand, 500 metres under the waves and 200 kilometres east of New Caledonia in the southwest Pacific Ocean. […]
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This Weird Creature Is The First We Know of That Hibernated
Animals have been hibernating for a very long, very long time, a new research exhibits. Researchers have analysed 250 million-yr-old fossils and observed proof that the pig-sized mammal relation, a genus called Lystrosaurus, hibernated much like bears and bats do these days. Obtaining symptoms of shifts in metabolic process premiums in […]
‘Snot Palaces’ Reveal Undersea Creature Secrets
Mucus…is a miraculous compound. It can be in our noses, of course—but it also can help us swallow. And it lubricates our eyes, so we can blink. But it is really not just us. Mucus is ubiquitous in the oceans, as well. “Fish are lined in mucus. There are parrot […]