Japanese biologists discover new species of sea worm in the southern ocean
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 - 11:40
in Earth & Climate
Earlier this year, a team from Japan's National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR), National Museum of Nature and Science (NMNS), and Kochi University (KU) set out to collect specimens of sea worm near the South Orkney Islands, a remote region of the Southern Ocean about 400 miles northeast of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.