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Scientists have discovered one of the largest known sea creatures – a coral the size of two basketball courts – off the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific.. The coral is believed to be ...
The giant squid is widespread, occurring in all of the world's oceans. It is usually found near continental and island slopes from the North Atlantic Ocean, especially Newfoundland, Norway, the northern British Isles, Spain and the oceanic islands of the Azores and Madeira, to the South Atlantic around southern Africa, the North Pacific around Japan, and the southwestern Pacific around New ...
[7] [8] The colossal squid has the largest eyes of any known creature ever to exist, with an estimated diameter of 27–30 cm (11–12 in) [9] to 40 cm (16 in) for the largest collected specimen. The species has similar anatomy to other members of its family, although it is the only member of Cranchiidae to display hooks on its arms, suckers ...
‘Large’ creature — with 20 arms — found lurking in Antarctic sea. It’s a new species. Mountain creature — with ‘yolk-yellow’ groin and armpits — discovered as new species. Cube ...
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
Bigfin squids are a group of rarely seen cephalopods with a distinctive morphology.They are placed in the genus Magnapinna and family Magnapinnidae. [2] Although the family was described only from larval, paralarval, and juvenile specimens, numerous video observations of much larger squid with similar morphology are assumed to be adult specimens of the same family.
Deep underwater off the coast of Japan, a sea creature with hundreds of tentacles swayed in the current. Unbeknownst to the rust-colored animal, it was about to be discovered as a new species.
The largest living fungus may be a honey fungus [25] of the species Armillaria ostoyae. [26] A mushroom of this type in the Malheur National Forest in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon, U.S. was found to be the largest fungal colony in the world, spanning 8.9 km 2 (2,200 acres) of area. [25] [27] This organism is estimated to be 2,400 years old.