What Does a Barbie Pig Have to Do With Seabed Mining?
Meet the "barbie pig," "gummy squirrel," and "headless chicken monster": These fantastical-sounding nicknames belong to real creatures living in the deep sea—one of the most extreme environments on Earth. And taxonomists, the scientists who discover and name new species, are finding new life in the ocean with every expedition to its depths. In fact, the deep sea makes up 90% of the marine environment, yet recent science suggests we've seen less than 1% of it.
But in the same place where a creature such as the barbie pig can survive, there's growing interest in deep-sea mining. Mineral-rich…
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