Supergiant Amphipod — GIANT: Grows 28cm—amphipods should be thumbnail-sized | Benthos Error

This crustacean should fit on your fingernail — instead it's the size of your forearm.

At 5,000 meters deep, the Supergiant Amphipod *Alicella gigantea* grows to 28cm — pressure that would crush steel is what keeps it alive. Bring it to the surface and our air tears its cells apart like wet paper. When a whale dies and sinks, thousands of these giants swarm the carcass and strip 30 tons of flesh to bare bone by morning.

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Sources:
- GBIF: https://www.gbif.org/species/search?q=Alicella+gigantea
- NCBI: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=Alicella+gigantea+COI

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