'Barbie' sea pig found

Published date27 March 2024
Publication titleDaily Star (England)
This includes alien-like, pink Amperima sea pigs dubbed "Barbie pig", rattail fish and unicumbers

The marine porker boasts quite the spiky hairdo but its sausage-fingerlike phalanges are just as eye-catching.

Boffins from London's Natural History Museum scientists caught the creatures on camera when they were studying the Clarion-Clipperton-Zone in the Pacific, a proposed deepsea mining site.

Marine biologist...

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