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🕷️ NEW: A University of #BritishColumbia researcher surveyed #SalishSea sea spiders across one field season and described two #species new to #science, the first in nearly a century.

One has hairy legs and grooming limbs, the other a messier body covered in #parasites. Both were registered in a global database with #DNA #data.

👉 https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-found-a-hairy-legged-sea-spider-with-a-nightmare-mouth/

#seaspiders #marinelife #biodiversity #taxonomy #ocean #invertebrates #biology #arthropods #research #pacificnorthwest #ecosystems

RE: https://mastodon.social/@seatek/117408976471663837

If you visit Seattle - or really any part of central Cascadia with ferry service - from somewhere far away, seriously, take the ferry. Not with a car, just walk on. It's basically a dirt cheap cruise, you can pick your length depending upon where you go. You can get off and walk around on the far side and it's nice to do so, but you don't even have to.

(But you should, particularly if you go to Winslow in the summer.)

it nice

#seattle #WashingtonState #PugetSound #SalishSea #cascadia