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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/antarctica-scientists-find-bizarre-creature-3500m-under-ice-like-nothing-seen-before/ar-AA1qjVdA
For anyone else who instantly needed to know more about this incredibly adorable little jiggler, it was found in the mud and no one seems to have a clue what it could be.
"It will endure 300 times more pressure than we experience every day."
My heart goes out to you. Hang in there, jiggly creature.
I wanted to see this thing in motion, so I tried to search up the youtube video, but no dice. Every article on it is just copy-pasted from the original on the Express site, and I can't get the embedded video attached to it to work. I did find an article on NIWA's site about a species of sea pig, which looks similar.
Featuring the famed biologist zeFrank
That is how a Ze Frank do.
Trawling for their research!? What terrible biologists... Study an ecosystem by destroying it. Genius...