Researchers find small animals inside deep-sea mineral nodules
Researchers have found tiny marine animals living within deep-sea polymetallic nodules, according to the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research. The mineral-rich lumps are also of interest to seabed mining companies.
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Researchers have found tiny marine animals living within deep-sea polymetallic nodules, according to the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research. The mineral-rich lumps are also of interest to seabed mining companies.
The finding gives scientists another reason to study how life uses the nodules. Removing them could affect habitat that is easy to miss when the nodules are considered only as a mineral resource.
Source: Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research.
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