Mini, eight-legged 'monster' discovered lurking under Canadian Arctic sea ice


A new species has been found paddling along the subsurface of the Arctic Ocean – a discovery that marks the first of its kind in Canada.

Aurelie Delaforge, University of Manitoba PhD student at the Centre for Earth Observation Science, first stumbled upon a new form of Monstrilloida zooplankton in the icy waters of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, in 2014. More than 160 different species of these "mini monsters" exist around the world, but none were known to live in Canada, until now.

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