🐟 A Deep-sea spa day for a celebrated species! Scientists found red cusk-eels nestled in tubeworm “bushes” at a methane seep off Chile’s coast. It's the first time this commercially important species has been documented using methane seeps as habitat! 🧵⬇️
🌊 Big win for the #DeepSea
At the #IUCNCongress members voted to adopt:
✅ Motion 032 – Protecting seamounts and vulnerable marine ecosystems from destructive practices
✅ Motion 035 – Protecting mesopelagic ecosystem integrity
Thanks to those who voted science into policy 👏
The effort to build climate science spans scientific disciplines and national borders. It must surely be the most significant scientific collaboration in human history.
https://t.co/0eT9uWAGXv
🚨 Rare find alert! Meet a deep-sea creature never before seen alive: the Antarctic gonate squid! 🦑🤝 Linsey Sala, Scripps Pelagic Invertebrate Collection Manager, told the @nytimes this discovery can reveal how this species lives at great depths. ⬇️ https://t.co/K9wnQgyb0Q