Curtin University and CSIRO researchers have detected genetic traces of the elusive giant squid Architeuthis dux in deep-sea canyons off Ningaloo Reef, the first record of the species in Western Australian waters in more than two decades and the northernmost in the eastern Indian Ocean. The eDNA survey, published this week in Environmental DNA, also catalogued 226 species across 11 major animal groups, several of them new to science.
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