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Supergiant crustaceans may cover more than half of the deep-sea floor

Alicella gigantea, the world’s largest amphipod, may be more common than we had thought Maroni et al./Royal Society Open Science…

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Supergiant crustaceans could live across half the deep-sea floor

Alicella gigantea, the world’s largest amphipod, may be more common than we had thought Maroni et al./Royal Society Open Science…

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Scaly-foot snail: The armor-plated hermaphrodite with a giant heart that lives near scalding deep-sea volcanoes and never eats

QUICK FACTS Name: Scaly-foot snail (Chrysomallon squamiferum) Where it lives: Hydrothermal vents on the seafloor of the Indian Ocean What…

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Watch enormous deep-sea spiders crawl around sub-Antarctic seafloor

Scientists have captured stunning video of a dinner-plate-size sea spider crawling on the seafloor off the South Sandwich Islands, a…

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Deep-sea life is still recovering from mining activity 40 years ago

Manganese nodules on the seafloor in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean, photographed by a 2015 expedition ROV KIEL…

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