一直致力于保护环境的WWF（世界自然基金组织）联合纽卡斯尔大学的研究人员在马里亚纳海沟7千米的深处，偶然发现了一种新的深海片脚类动物。经过分析，带回的六只样品中竟然有一只含有塑料纤维，近似聚对苯二甲酸乙二醇酯(PET)——这种物质本身存在于水瓶、运动服等各种日常生活用品中。研究人员根据该物种摄入的塑料，将其正式命名为“Eurythenes plasticus”，即塑料钩虾，以此来警示世人，海洋保护迫在眉睫，并对此发表了相关的研究。
when you're diving at the extreme debt, you have the chance to see something that no one else has ever seen before. and if you look enough to find a new species, you get to give a name the name you gave must be unique. something appropriate should be memorable. after all, the name will go down in history. scientists have found a new species living nearly seven kilometres below sea level that the exciting discovery comes with a warning. the ocean plastic problem goes far deeper than anything previously imagined to highlight this, the german brush of the w w f made history, turning the name of the new species into the message by entering european's plastics into our planet's official taxonomic record. plastic pollution is within hours. a worldwide conversation had ignited over the extent of the plastic pollution in our oceans in over the new discovery, not only spark debate, but also people's creativity. following the new discussions, we rolled out across platform campaign that we wrote out a cross platform that activated people to sign a petition asking for legally binding global u n agreement to put an end to marine plastic pollution. this idea is the combination of over one and a half years of collaboration. not only did the new species need to be located, but it also had to be analyzed for plastic contamination and then be named this cross over a advertising and science enable us to attend lies the idea by partnering with museums in germany and also internationally, including this masonic, to permanently display the new species as an educative awakening. and we're just making a statement to say that we are now, at the point we are looking new species from an inspired habitat, and is already containing. it was plastic.
