New species of shrimp found after ‘hitchhiking’ to south Lond

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For more than a decade, nobody at the museum had any idea that the unusally fast-moving, zig-zagging shrimp they were feeding to the fish in their aquarium was a brand-new species that had never been seen before anywhere else in the world.

Smaller than a child’s fingernail, the new type of marine mysid crustacean has been discovered in a humble tank at the Horniman museum in London, where it has spent at least the past 12 years hiding in plain sight and “breeding like mad”.

The shrimp, which was named Heteromysis hornimani by Dr Daniel Abed-Navandi, a marine biologist at the University of Vienna, in honour of its place of discovery, is thought to have “hitchhiked” to the museum on an ocean rock many years ago. 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/21/new-species-of-shrimp-found-after-hitchhiking-on-ocean-rock-to-south-london-museum

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I swear, humans can be so stupid sometimes 

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after 2020, I don't feel comfortable with something being discovered

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looks lioke he'd make for a tasty paella

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3 hours ago, FfFfFfFF said:

where it has spent at least the past 12 years hiding in plain sight and “breeding like mad”.

me to the shrimp

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4 hours ago, FfFfFfFF said:

 

The shrimp, which was named Heteromysis hornimani