Bahamas shark station comes
under attack - but the monster isn't Jaws, it's a foot-long woodlouse from
8,500ft down
By Rob Waugh
When
'teeth marks' appeared in cables of an underwater camera system in the Bahamas
and the camera cut out, the scientists in charge began to look around for a
cuplrit. Edd Brooks of the Bahamas Cape Eleuthera Institute took a closer look
at the cables and found that the teeth marks looked like a huge crustacean had
gnawed on them. The truth was even stranger: they were under attack from a foot
long undersea woodlouse. 'There’s nothing else with mandibles that sharp,' says
Brooks. 'It was a Bathynomus attack.'
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