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On April 25, 1977, the Japanese trawler Zuiyō Maru, fishing east of Christchurch, New Zealand, caught a strange, unknown creature in the trawl.The crew was convinced it was an unidentified animal, [4] but despite the potential biological significance of the curious discovery, the captain, Akira Tanaka, decided to dump the carcass into the ocean again so not to risk spoiling the fish caught.
Like most other members of its genus, Jorunna parva's diet consists of toxic sponges in the family Chalinidae. However, they are also known to eat algae, seagrass, and other small creatures, such as sea slugs or sea snails. The sponges that make up a large percentage of their diet are actually subject to scientific study.
"It looks like it's something made up of a bunch of spare parts left over from other animals," Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute senior scientist Bruce Robison, who led the research, told ...
They captured four of these animals and, taking a closer look, realized they’d discovered a new species: Phestilla arnoldi, or Arnold’s sea slug. Arnold’s sea slugs measure about a tenth of ...
Glowing sea creature with 15 tentacles found off Florida coast. It’s a new species ‘Golden’-tailed creature — pregnant with 2 eggs — discovered as new species.
Trunko is the nickname for a large unidentified lump of flesh or a decomposed sea creature, a so-called "globster", reportedly sighted in Margate, South Africa on 25 October 1924. The initial source for Trunko was an article entitled "Fish Like A Polar Bear" published on 27 December 1924, edition of London's Daily Mail .
Scientists found the spiny animal while aboard a submersible in the South China Sea. ‘Large’ sea creature — with ‘blade-like’ claws — discovered as new species. See it
Animal ethics is a branch of ethics which examines human-animal relationships, the moral consideration of animals and how nonhuman animals ought to be treated. The subject matter includes animal rights, animal welfare, animal law, speciesism, animal cognition, wildlife conservation, wild animal suffering, [1] the moral status of nonhuman animals, the concept of nonhuman personhood, human ...