Peter de Kruijff

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I think that they were probably partially the inspiration from the alien concepts, but that very otherworldly look to these little creatures that I guess they're like a starfish if it was from an alien world.

They have these more wavy arms and then those really kind of gnarly looking mouths if you flip them over, just really ancient, but then from another planet almost, yeah.

There is a thought that, you know, yeah, these kind of big deep trenches that are ecological hotspots, you know, as unique and as diverse as thermal vent areas and other sort of spots around the planet that we should put some sort of international kind of maritime boundaries around them.

Perhaps, yeah, leave them off from something like deep sea mining, which we're talking about.

more and more about.

But, you know, this might help point the way for other unique areas, perhaps under known whale habitat where they might hang around a bit longer to kind of look for these sort of similar geological structures to see if it's caught similar amounts of whales and has similar, you know, ecological values.

Yeah.

But it certainly seems to be a unique kind of areas that might warrant some conservation.

Yeah.