An amazing creature who lives deep in the Northeastern Atlantic Ocean is captured in photographs of the expiration of time, allowing scientists to learn more about the role he plays on the seabed.
They found that the small endomic anemone was probably the most common animal of the dicococcal abisal plane – constituting about half of the megaphalic density – and studied its eating and growth habits. He lives at 4850 meters below the surface, and his diet includes a much larger pouring or marine worm. Creatures also spent hours creating new storms.
“With every movement of the Burr’s animal disappears from the view, withdrawing into its hole, then a small mound appears a short distance from the original groove,” the researchers wrote, as Discover Wildlife reported.
“This mound grows and is broken along the comb before the animal exits the top of the mound, first tentacles, and settled in the new storm with its disk by washing the surface of the sludge and tentacles,” the study continued.
Photo Credit: Jennifer M. Darden, Brian J. Beth, Henry A. Rul
The study was published in Deep Sea Research, Part I: Oceanography Research Papers. Followed by 18 copies for 20 months at eight -hour intervals and one individual for two weeks at intervals of 20 minutes. RRS James Cook and RRS Discovery used with towing vehicles to take 29 016 usable photos.
One anemone reached 109 millimeters (4.3 inches), while the average diameter of the oral disc was 32 mm (1.3 in). They have 24 tentacles.
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Not only do the creatures feed on phytodetrite from the seabed, but they are also predators, which contradicts the previous thought. Researchers said that iosactis vagabunda, which was called “dominant” in the title of paper, is not a suspension or even opportunistic omnivorous, but a “significant” predator.
In one case, a 22mm anemone spent three plus days per camera before eating 105 mm, they fly for 16 hours. He spent the next 56 hours, completely extended above his hole, extending to this maximum length of 109 mm. Tea or Worm bristles “were visible through the wall of the anemone body,” according to the study.
The anemons observed spent an average of 19 days in their grooves, and scientists tracked an individual for nearly 10 days. It took 22 hours in one sequence to move to a new storm.
After disappearing from the view, she began to build a mound under the sludge nearly 10 hours later. It did this for almost five hours to break through and it took another eight hours to appear and settle. He spent six days there before moving again.
“This lifestyle of Hemissile, with a frequent displacement of the dig, can be to allow more efficient operation of resources and thus be related to the behavior of the nutrition,” they wrote, noting that the movement of invertebrates is unique among the predatory anemons in the abisal plain of the dicobra.
Researchers have said anemones can be “critical” carbon cyclists, as their observations show influence two to 20 times more than another study of marine anemons in the plain.
This and similar discoveries, including the potential for seagrass heavy metals, prove the value of the ocean research.
Against the backdrop of increasing global temperatures, seawater absorbs much of the excess heat of the atmosphere, revealing the consequences of burning people from dirty energy sources – and what can be done to balance Earth ecosystems.
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