Michael Dalton, Author at 快猫短视频 Science news and science articles from 快猫短视频 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:36:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 242057827 Quick quiz #358: Who wrote Silent Spring? /games/2531468-quick-quiz-358-who-wrote-silent-spring/?utm_campaign=RSS|NSNS&utm_content=currents&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=NSNS Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:00:27 +0000 /?post_type=crossword&p=2531468
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]]> 2527606 Weird and wonderful sea pen found on Mystery Ridge /article/2527971-weird-and-wonderful-sea-pen-found-on-mystery-ridge/?utm_campaign=RSS|NSNS&utm_content=currents&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=NSNS Tue, 26 May 2026 13:35:24 +0000 /?post_type=article&p=2527971 Mystery Ridge Sea Pen. Credit_ Paul Satchell_The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census_Schmidt Ocean Institute

If you think this picture looks a bit like a feather pen, then you鈥檇 be correct. Except it鈥檚 not the type that you can write with.

Sea pens are a type of coral that live on the sea floor and are made up of several specialised polyps. This particular sea pen is new to science, and was discovered at a depth of 805 metres on Mystery Ridge off the South Sandwich Islands, a chain of islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. It was found thanks to the Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census, a global programme aiming to discover 100,000 new marine species over the next decade.

The Mystery Ridge sea pen is聽one聽of more than 1000 new species that were discovered by聽the聽census across a聽total of 13聽expeditions in 2025 and 2026.

The sea pen is now undergoing genetic testing to determine its evolutionary lineage.

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