The new species was named Bathylepeta wadatsumi, a reference to Wadatsumi, the god of the sea in Japanese mythology, and the character "Large Monk" Wadatsumi, from the manga series ONE PIECE. The ...
Researchers from Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) have discovered a deep-sea limpet species 5,922 metres beneath the northwestern Pacific Ocean, marking the deepest known ...