Comment on Gabe Newell Found "Unknown Life" in Japan by Water CS2 (video: 13:57 mins) [Note: Gabe is the founder of Valve and Steam]

frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Youtube sensationlist bs. Fortunately there’s the paper link, so I went and looked, and here’s what they found (reformatted for readability)

30 groups with indeterminable morphotaxa numbers (‘spp’) were also included. These included

  • groups of small individuals that swarm (e.g. Amphipoda and Mysida),
  • groups with small indeterminable body sizes (e.g., Annelida, munnopsid Isopoda, Ophiuroidea, elasipodid Holothuroidea),
  • individuals of groups that were often drifting too far from the camera to confidently identify (e.g., Appendicularia, Narcomedusae, Trachymedusae and Ctenophora) and
  • other groups that are notoriously difficult to identify from images (e.g., Monothalamea).

It’s not “wild unknown deep sea creature”, it’s “we didn’t get a good enough picture to say what species this annelid is”.

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