The specimens were the bycatch of a fishing vessel in the South China Sea, which researchers later bought to study.
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Researchers said a “rapid decline” of plant life and the introduction of a new species may have ... with underwater plants in south-central China swam a fish believed to have existed nowhere ...
Three other new sea cucumber species were identified and described in the same study. The South China Sea sits between the southern coast of China, the eastern coast of Vietnam and the western ...
During their surveys, the team found several unfamiliar-looking brown eels, the study said. They took a closer look at the ...