'Barbie pigs' and 'unicumbers' among several bizarre, new species discovered at proposed site for...
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Between 13,000-16,000 feet under the sea, biodiversity researchers have raced to document whimsical, new marine life in advance of a green energy mining project.
Their latest finds include a bright pink 'Barbie pig' — a multi-legged 'amperima' sea cucumber that forages along the sea floor for dead plankton, called 'marine snow.'
Other specimens include an alien-like and perfectly translucent sea pig, dubbed a 'unicumber' and one of the deepest-dwelling vertebrates now known to science, the 'Rattail fish.'