{"id":18235,"date":"2023-12-16T09:24:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T03:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18235"},"modified":"2025-04-05T09:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T04:07:58","slug":"austropallene-halanychi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/austropallene-halanychi\/","title":{"rendered":"Austropallene halanychi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Austropallene halanychi<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The spider with a strange yellow body colour was found off the\u00a0Antarctica Ocean and has four near-black eyes and large bulbous claws.<\/li>\n<li>Features:<\/li>\n<li>It is a distant\u00a0relative to horseshoe crabs and arachnids.<\/li>\n<li>The sea spider also has a peculiar way of eating in which it does not use its mouth but a straw-like proboscis to consume food.<\/li>\n<li>Another bizarre function found in the species was its way of respiration &#8211; it breathes through its legs.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In addition, the new species\u00a0has large claws that look like &#8220;boxing gloves,&#8221; which it likely uses to grab hold of soft foods like anemones and worms<\/li>\n<li>It was pulled from the ocean floor in the\u00a0Ross Sea, about 1,870 feet (570 meters) below the surface.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key points about Ross Sea<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a giant bay just 320 kms from the\u00a0South Pole.<\/li>\n<li>A large portion of the sea is covered by the\u00a0Ross Ice Shelf, the largest ice shelf in Antarctica. The sea is remote and positioned south and slightly east of New Zealand.<\/li>\n<li>It is the\u00a0first protected area in Antarctica, and home to most of the world\u2019s\u00a0penguins and many species of whale.<\/li>\n<li>It is strongly\u00a0influenced by the coastal\u00a0East-Wind Drift that sets up a vast clockwise gyre accompanied by deepwater upwelling.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is one of the last intact marine ecosystems in the world, home to penguins, seals, Antarctic toothfish, and whales.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Horseshoe crab?<\/h3>\n<p>The horseshoe crab is a marine chelicerate arthropod living in shallow coastal waters on soft sandy or muddy bottoms and spawns mostly on intertidal beaches at summer-spring high tides. The Chelicerata is a division within the Arthropoda, containing animals such as spiders, scorpions, harvestmen, mites and ticks. Like all arthropods, they have a segmented body and segmented limbs and a thick chitinous cuticle called an exoskeleton.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/science\/boxing-glove-claws-breathing-through-legs-newly-found-sea-spider-species-has-some-bizarre-features-669867\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Newly found sea spider species breathes through legs, has boxing gloves for claws<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austropallene halanychi has a strange yellow body colour found off the Antarctica Ocean and has four near-black eyes and large bulbous claws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}