This weird deep-sea creature was named by thousands of people online

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The Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance (SOSA), working with scientific publisher Pensoft Publishers and well known science YouTuber Ze Frank, invited the public to help name a newly identified deep-sea chiton (a type of marine mollusk). The official scientific description of the species was published today in the open-access Biodiversity Data Journal.

More than 8,000 name ideas were submitted through social media. After reviewing the entries, the rese...

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