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Viral Deep-Sea Expedition Found a Real-Life Patrick From SpongeBob, And 57 New Species
A cheeky-looking starfish stole the show during a live-streamed deep-sea expedition off the coast of Argentina last year, but that was not all scientists found.
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A cheeky-looking starfish stole the show during a live-streamed deep-sea expedition off the coast of Argentina last year, but that was not all scientists found. An international team of biologists recently met at Universidad Maimónides in Buenos Aires to identify a trove of species collected during the Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition in August 2025, where a Patrick Star lookalike was famously live-streamed.
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