2026-09-25 11:30 UTC
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Assessing Recovery:
Visiting old, experimental test-mining sites from decades past to see if life has managed to recover (spoiler: deep-sea ecosystems recover extraordinarily slowly, taking centuries or millennia).
#SMARTEX
#CCZ
#DeepSeaMining
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@appassionato@mastodon.social 2026-09-25 11:32
7/ The Discovery of the "Barbie Pig" During one of the ROV dives to a depth of around 5,000 meters, the team's cameras captured a striking, neon-pink, sausage-like creature walking across the abyssal sediment on stumpy, fleshy legs. Because of its vibrant bubblegum-pink color and sea-pig-like posture, the researchers playfully dubbed it the "Barbie Pig. #MarineLife