Incidentally, the small handcuffs shed the 'huge' greenhouse gas emissions.

Recent research shows that marine species (scientific name: Minuca Pugnax) is one of the "culprits" that releases many greenhouse gases into the environment due to their unusual habits.

During the annual meeting of the American Ecological Community, scientists first warned that the species also contributed to increasing the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

The burrowing habit of carrying out a lot of carbon dioxide out of the environment - (Photo: SCIENCE).

It is a typical species in mangrove areas, often living in caves because they dig themselves under shallow mud. Worth mentioning, each of the seagulls can dig up to hundreds of caves, even thousands, even though they may not use this cave system at all.

This extravagance may be beneficial for the cuffs but not for the environment. Scientists say each cave in the muddy and muddy area is a source of greenhouse emissions because the handcuffs unintentionally expose organic layers that decay underground into the air and bring in CO. ₂ out of the atmosphere.

Scientists from the University of Hong Kong (China) and the University of Chicago (USA) conduct quantitative research on the mangrove area near Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts (USA).

They took three caves to make standard, then measured the amount of CO ₂ emitted from here for many times of the day and compared them to nearby places.

As a result, the group found places with caves , CO2 emissions on average three times in areas where there were no. There are even caves and gas components that contain much methane gas.

In addition to CO ₂ , the caves also contain more methane - (Photo: SCIENCE)

According to the Science magazine, if multiplied by the number of caves that a handcuff can dig in its life cycle and multiplied by the number of cuffs in an ecosystem - it can be up to 700 in a 1 square meter area - the The scientist who calculated the amount of CO2 in a swamp area for a year could be equivalent to a person burning about 515 million liters of gasoline.

This number is much larger than the equilibrium threshold of the swamp area they live in, so the areas with a lot of cave are always abundant in CO ₂ .

Scientists say the study could show a similar situation to other burrowing animals like shrimp or crab."We are finding out more about whether the larger the cave of this species, the more CO2 emitted," said Dr. Laura Agusto from the University of Hong Kong.