This Sea Creature Looks Like Poop. It May Also Live For 120 Years.
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Some sea cucumbers can live for over a hundred years. Australian scientists studied over 50 individuals of one species to assess its population status. It turned out that most of the captured animals had participated in similar studies more than two decades ago.
This Sea Creature Looks Like Poop. It May Also Live For 120 Years.
The black teatfish is the first sea cucumber estimated to have a lifespan that can exceed 100 years. (陳致維 Chih-Wei Chen/iNaturalist, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) But there's a catch...ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.
The H. whitmaei lives slowly and reproduces slowly, too slow to endure the voracious search of those who hunt delicacies. Spreaded by the Pacific and the Indian, lives a humble sea cucumber called Holothuria (Microthele) whitmaei. It reminds slightly of a coconut, and was given with the pitiful common name of ☆black teatfish. It is much appreciated as iguaria, although it has been classified as endangered species for more than a decade. And yet,…
Study with DNA shows that sea cucumber lives decades, grows little and can take more than a century to disappear from the population
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