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From the BBN segment “Viral deep-sea expedition found a real-life Patrick and 57 new species”, cut down to under a minute.
The full story and the real reporting behind it (ScienceAlert) →
What BBN said on air. The facts are in the original report: ScienceAlert.
Hank LedgerA deep-sea expedition off Argentina went viral for a starfish that looks like Patrick from SpongeBob, and the real find was something else: fifty-seven new species.
Gloria VanceA taxonomy workshop named them, plus five new genera, from samples collected by the underwater robot SuBastian in the Mar del Plata Canyon, which is nearly twice as deep as the Grand Canyon, according to Dexerto.
Vera BullockAnd the starfish itself drew nearly four million viewers when it was live-streamed in August twenty twenty-five.
Vera BullockHonestly, it's a star in every sense, and I think...
Hank LedgerNot a new species, though. The team left it undisturbed, and it has no idea it's famous.
Vera BullockUndisturbed and unbothered. That's a lifestyle.
Gloria VanceThe real work was the copepods, tiny crustaceans.
Gloria VanceTaxonomists examined only about ten percent of the samples, and every one they checked was new to science.
Hank LedgerEvery one?
Gloria VanceEvery one. Michelle Taylor of Ocean Census says the deep sea holds some of the least understood ecosystems on Earth.
Gloria VanceA horned sea cucumber nicknamed Loki was also filmed alive at twenty-five hundred seventy-seven meters.
Vera BullockLoki. Somebody finally gave the sea cucumber a villain arc.
Hank LedgerTwenty taxonomists spent a workshop in Buenos Aires naming fifty-seven animals, and the one everybody knows is the one they left alone.
Hank LedgerPatrick wins again by doing nothing.
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