Thousands of Strange Creatures Discovered in Dark Ocean Depths
source: http://www.livescience.com/animals/091122-deep-sea-creatures.html
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"A stunning 17,650 species are now known to thrive in an eternal watery darkness, revealed via cameras towed deep in the sea, sonar and other technologies. This menagerie of weird creatures, ranging from crabs to shrimp to worms, somehow manage a living in a frigid black world down to roughly 3 miles (5 km) below the ocean waves.
Most of these creatures have adapted to diets based on meager droppings from the sunlit layer above, while others live on sulfur and methane, or bacteria that break down oil, or the sunken bones of dead whales and other implausible foods.
Scientists have inventoried about 17,650 species deeper than 656 feet (200 meters), the edge of darkness, where sunlight no longer penetrates. This number includes some 5,722 species recorded deeper than the black abyss of 3,280 feet (1,000 meters).
"Typically the deep sea is viewed as something beyond concern, a pit, a desert, a wasteland, but what we have found in our work is that there is an incredible diversity of species there, often with striking adaptations that we as yet don't understand yet," researcher Robert Carney of Louisiana State University, co-leader of the Continental Margin Ecosystems on a Worldwide Scale project, told LiveScience. "
Much more at link including some info on these new found species!
http://www.livescience.com/animals/091122-deep-sea-creatures.html
Most of these creatures have adapted to diets based on meager droppings from the sunlit layer above, while others live on sulfur and methane, or bacteria that break down oil, or the sunken bones of dead whales and other implausible foods.
Scientists have inventoried about 17,650 species deeper than 656 feet (200 meters), the edge of darkness, where sunlight no longer penetrates. This number includes some 5,722 species recorded deeper than the black abyss of 3,280 feet (1,000 meters).
"Typically the deep sea is viewed as something beyond concern, a pit, a desert, a wasteland, but what we have found in our work is that there is an incredible diversity of species there, often with striking adaptations that we as yet don't understand yet," researcher Robert Carney of Louisiana State University, co-leader of the Continental Margin Ecosystems on a Worldwide Scale project, told LiveScience. "
Much more at link including some info on these new found species!
http://www.livescience.com/animals/091122-deep-sea-creatures.html
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asherp
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I love this sort of shit.
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animebelle
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Woah that pic is awesome
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Varex_Sythe
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Am I weird for thinking that this picture reminds me of the movie Alien?
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