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Roly Polys' Deep-Sea Cousins
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May 28, 2024
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0:56Now PlayingIsopods are the deep-sea cousins of roly polys, or pill bugs. These crustaceans are deep-sea scavengers who play an important role in recycling energy.
Though they’ve been around for hundreds of millions of years, this species wasn’t observed until 2019, when researchers from the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) at Stony Brook University and the Cape Eleuthera Institute joined OceanX on an expedition to explore biodiversity in the deep waters of the Bahamas.
Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst used a technique called photogrammetry to build an animated 3D model of the isopod.
Discoveries like this one highlight how important it is to keep exploring the unexplored. The more we learn about deep-sea ecosystems, the better we can understand and protect them
📝 A new species of deepsea Booralana Bruce, 1986 (CrustaceaIsopodaCirolanidae) from The Bahamas, Western North Atlantic via Zootaxa
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