{"id":28743,"date":"2025-03-09T05:59:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T00:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28743"},"modified":"2025-04-08T21:46:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:16:26","slug":"dulcibella-camanchaca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dulcibella-camanchaca\/","title":{"rendered":"Dulcibella Camanchaca"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Dulcibella Camanchaca Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>A new deep-sea predator has been discovered in the Atacama Trench, though incredibly small in size, possesses lethal hunting abilities that make it a formidable force in its underwater ecosystem.<\/p>\n<h2>About Dulcibella Camanchaca<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Dulcibella camanchaca is a newly discovered amphipod, a shrimp-like marine creature, marking the first known predatory amphipod in the hadal zone\u2014depths exceeding 6,000 meters below the ocean surface.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike most amphipods that feed on detritus, D. camanchaca is an active predator, using specialized appendages to catch and consume other organisms.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>This behaviour is rare among deep-sea creatures, which typically rely on scavenging due to the scarcity of food.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Living in one of the harshest ecosystems on Earth, D. camanchaca has adapted to freezing temperatures and immense pressure, which exceeds 1,000 times the atmospheric pressure at sea level.<\/li>\n<li>The genus name Dulcibella is inspired by Dulcinea, a character from Don Quixote. However, since this name was already assigned to another species, researchers chose camanchaca, meaning &#8220;darkness&#8221; in some South American languages\u2014a fitting name for a creature that thrives in total darkness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Atacama Trench<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Atacama Trench stretches along the eastern South Pacific Ocean, plunging to depths exceeding 8,000 m off the coast of northern Chile.<\/li>\n<li>It is part of the hadal zone, a region characterised by intense pressure, near-freezing temperatures, and complete darkness.<\/li>\n<li>It is one of the most geographically isolated hadal features and is situated below eutrophic surface waters and characterized by high sediment loads.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Dulcibella Camanchaca FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Is the Dulcibella camanchaca real?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> Yes, Dulcibella camanchaca is real; it&#8217;s a newly discovered deep-sea amphipod species found in the Atacama Trench, South Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2. <\/strong>What is the meaning of Dulcibella camanchaca?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: <\/strong>&#8220;Dulcibella&#8221; refers to Dulcinea from Don Quixote, and &#8220;camanchaca&#8221; means &#8220;darkness,&#8221; symbolizing its deep-sea habitat in the Atacama Trench.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3. <\/strong>How big is Dulcibella camanchaca?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: <\/strong>Dulcibella camanchaca measures around 4 centimeters, making it larger than its closest relatives and adapted uniquely for predation in deep waters<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/etimes\/trending\/a-new-deep-sea-predator-has-been-discovered-and-its-tiny-but-deadly\/articleshow\/118802882.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dulcibella camanchaca is a newly discovered deep-sea amphipod species found in the Atacama Trench, South Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28743","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\/28743","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=28743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}