A crab with green googly eyes , another with " ear " resembling peanuts , and a species of jumbo sea cockroach are among the dozen new kinds of crustaceans discovered by scientists in the waters off Indonesia , Channel News Asiareports .
These discovery are the result of a two - week expedition by Indonesian and Singaporean scientists with the South Java Deep Sea Biodiversity Expedition ( SJADES 2018 ) , which affect exploring deep urine in the Sunda Strait ( the waterway separating the island of Sumatra and Java in Southeast Asia ) and the Indian Ocean . Using trawls , dredge , and other tools , researcher convey a huge variety of deep - ocean life to the surface — some species for the very first prison term .
" The globe down there is an foreign public , " Peter Ng , chief scientist of the expedition , recite Channel News Asia . " You have pee that go down more than 2000 to 3000 time [ 9800 feet ] , and we do not hump … the animal life that ’s at the bottom . "
The giant sea cockroach — technically a jumbo isopod , also nicknamed a Darth Vader isopod — is a new species in the genusBathynomus , measuring almost a foot long and found more than 4000 substructure deep . The isopods are occasionally seen on the ocean floor , where they scuttle around scavenging for bushed Pisces the Fishes and other brute . This tick off the first time the genus has ever been recorded in Indonesia .
Another find is a spider crab nicknamed Big Ears , though it does n’t actually have ears — its monkey nut - shaped plates are used to protect the crab ’s center .
More than 800 coinage were collect during the outing , accounting for 12,000 individual creature . research worker say it will take up to two years to hit the books all of them . In addition to the 12 coinage that are completely fresh to skill , 40 were seen for the first prison term in Indonesia . Creatures that the scientists dubbed a strand - sawing machine lobster , an water ice ointment cone worm , and a cock - eyed calamary were among some of the rarer notice .
Researchers took to the elephantine sea cockroach apace , with some of the crowd members reportedly calling it “ cunning ” and cradling it like a sister . Check out Channel News Asia Insider ’s video below for more brainstorm into their creepy discovery .
[ h / tChannel News Asia ]
