New species of marine worm discovered on the Antarctic Deception Island

Date:May 7, 2015

Source:Universidad de Barcelona

Summary:A new marine invertebrate species has been discovered on Deception Island (South Shetland Islands), in the Southern Ocean. The new species is part of a group of marine worms (polychaetous annelids) which commonly occur in marine seabed rich in organic matter -- from both natural and anthropogenic origin -- at different latitudes.

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Too Hot for Love: Breeding Penguins Vanish from Antarctic Island

In the first complete survey of chinstrap penguins' breeding across Deception Island in the Antarctic, scientists have found a significant number of the chic birds have disappeared from the breeding grounds since the 1980s.

The largest colony, called Baily Head on Deception Island, which is located in the Antarctic's South Shetland Islands, saw a drop of more than 50 percent over the past two decades, the researchers added.

The culprit? The scientists point to climate change.

The study, detailed this week in the journal Polar Biology, complements another recent tally of chinstrap penguins on Deception Island. That survey focused on just one chinstrap colony on Deception, showing that more than one-third of the Vapour Col colony had vanished in the past 20 years.

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