The depth and vastness of the sea makes many people stay away, but its mystery is also curious. According to the “Daily Mail” report on July 16, a group of research teams from Singapore and Indonesia discovered a number of creepy deep-sea species at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, including giant deep-sea big lice , giant squid and many others. Species of spider crabs and so on, among which the giant deep-sea big lice similar to "Star Wars" Black Warrior has been confirmed as a new species.
In fact, these deep-sea creatures were discovered in 2018 when scientists from the National University of Singapore and the Indonesian Institute of Science formed a team called "South Java Deep Sea Biodiversity Investigation Team (SJADES 2018)." From March to April of that year, the team explored 63 locations on the southern bank of the Java Sea of and the Sunda Strait for a total of 14 days, and collected 12,000 creatures from a depth of 800 meters to 2100 meters, including . There are 800 different species including spider crab , mollusks, shrimps, sponges, starfish, sea urchins and worms, of which 12 are not recorded in the scientific literature.
After 2 years of research, the team confirmed that the 14 giant deep-sea big lice ( sea cockroach ) found at that time were new species and were officially named Bathynomus raksasa. These sea cockroaches live on the sea bed and belong to an isopod of the genus Bathynomus. The body length of can reach 20 inches (about 50 cm) , and it is an important scavenger in the deep sea environment. Such as the carcasses of whales and squids; sometimes they will actively prey on sea cucumbers, sponges and other slow-moving submarine animals and plants, and are known as submarine scavengers. But they are also tenacious like cockroaches and can survive for a long time even without food.
ps: Isopod usually refers to small crustaceans, mostly living on the seabed. There are generally 7 pairs of articulated limbs (feet) of similar size and shape, and only the head has a shell. Peter Ng, a biologist at
and curator of the Natural History Museum of Singapore, said: “We have never collected biological samples from the bottom of the Indian Ocean, so we don’t know what we will find. But one of the animals we hope to find is this giant deep sea. Big louse, we call it the "Black Samurai." When we finally found it, the staff couldn't help being excited and held it up to take pictures!"
In fact, the king of the worm is considered to be the largest in the world, etc. Pod creature , body length is about 19-37 cm. However, the giant deep-sea big lice collected in the Indian Ocean this time can be regarded as replacing the status of the king with feet.
I believe that many people have heard of the two most famous things about the king of worms: hunger strike and gourmet food. The hunger strike refers to the Japanese Toba Aquarium in 2007 introduced 10 great king worms, of which the No. 1 king worms ate a 50g horse mackerel on January 2, 2009 and then did not eat them. He did not drink and was finally declared dead on February 14, 2014. A total of 5 years and 43 days of hunger strikes (1869 days), setting a world record for the longest animal hunger strike.
This great king became famous because he was hungry, so many experts and scholars have studied the reasons for his hunger strike and hungry tolerance, but there has been no definite answer. Unexpectedly, the Japanese began to fall in love with the king's worm, and launched many products of the king's worm. What's more, the king worm has become a delicacy in the coastal areas of Japan-fried king worm, which is said to taste a bit like chicken. In fact, this "fried king worm" is another isopod creature "Dow's deepwater louse", but because the dow's deepwater louse is called "large worm" in Japanese, and the two are similar in appearance, they are very similar. Easy to be ignored.
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