Natural History Wanderings

MSN  reported

A new-to-science predator has been identified from the hadal depths of the Atacama Trench, a first for this island-like ecosystem in the Southeast Pacific. Here, scientists had loaded bait traps with some chicken in an effort to lure in some scavengers and instead found themselves with a whopping great predatory amphipod– something that had been documented in other hadal subduction trenches, but never the Atacama.

Read more and see photos at  First-Of-Its-Kind Predator Caught 8,000 Meters Deep In The Atacama Trench