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> The new giant isopod species was described from two specimens, ... 950 and 1,260 metres, during the South Java Deep Sea Biodiversity Expedition 2018 If you s
by dane-pgp 6y ago
> The new giant isopod species was described from two specimens, ... 950 and 1,260 metres, during the South Java Deep Sea Biodiversity Expedition 2018
If you skim-read the article, you might end up with a very different picture in your head.
- _jal 6y agoThey're still pretty big, but not destroying Tokyo anytime soon.
- progval 6y agoYou missed an important part of the sentence: > collected off the southern coast of West Java in Indonesia, from a depth of between 950 and 1,260 metres the specimens were not 1km long.
- dane-pgp 6y agoYou missed an important part of the sentence: > skim-read I then went back to read the sentence properly, but thank you for including the missing part for those who didn't read the article.
- progval 6y agoIndeed, my bad. I misunderstood your comment as saying skim-readers might miss that sentence and only see the sizes on pictures.