Big publishing week, and last few months for the #NHMDeepSea group Natural History Museum Science Natural History Museum. A series of papers making critical #biodiversity data openly available to assist future policy decisions. Here are the highlights:

Natural History Museum Science Natural History Museum Out today in Current Biology by Muriel Rabone Natural History Museum Science et al we show that >90% of animals in the Pacific abyss are undescribed, a region being explored for seabed minerals. Plenty of work to keep us taxonomists busy for the next few decades! cell.com/current-biolog…

Led by Eva Stewart NHM_Students Natural History Museum Science an epic study of #polychaete #biodiversity in the Pacific abyssal mining regions shows that its probably the most biodiverse abyssal region so far explored onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

When not in the muds of the abyss, the #NHMDeepSea Natural History Museum team have been describing weird, wonderful worms from deep-sea hot springs, w @expeditionlog. Here Magdalena Georgieva led work on two new ones from the same place James Cameron set the film The Abyss publish.csiro.au/is/IS22047