Your Weekly Attenborough: Ctenocheloides attenboroughi

A very spooky shrimp.

By Nathaniel Scharping
Jan 20, 2018 4:10 AMFeb 11, 2020 8:29 PM
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So ghostly we can't even show you a real picture. This is just a regular shrimp. (Credit: Lubov Chipurko/Shutterstock)

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Some species are so rare, so secluded or timid that they flit through our consciousness like a ghost. Perhaps they're known from no more than a single specimen, others, undoubtedly, exist only in the hazy halls of rumor. The diversity of life is too great for us, a single species, to pin every bit of biodiversity under the spotlight of science.

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