Deep-Sea Creatures Captured Alive And Studied

techmaven writes: "A recent article on the NewsFactor network, 'Scientists Bring 'Em Back Alive from Ocean Depths,' reports that scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara were able to capture and bring back alive from the bottom of the ocean, several deep-sea creatures rarely seen by humans, much less studied. The creatures may provide answers to how animals can survive in a cold, dark, gaseous environment."

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Very expensive fish tank?

[Atrahasis]

May provide answers to how creatures can survive at high temp and pressure? May?
They are the answer to how they can survive. The interesting thing will be whether they are a different evolutionary track, the origin of the evolutionary track we're on, or a different branch of the evolutionary track.
Its pretty cool to see a type of life that doesn't depend on sunlight for its energy source, though. Or entropy buffer.

Another point as well - will they make their mind up about USB or UCSB? Two different abbrev. in one article isn't clever.