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Many New Species Found Under Antarctica
gt_mattex writes to tell us The Globe and Mail is reporting that quite a few new species have been found in the ocean beneath the Antarctic ice. From the article: "It is too early to say exactly how many new species were discovered in the Antarctic, many in the Weddell Sea, where ice crushed the ship of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton in 1915. The scientists saw more strange creatures than familiar ones, says Ron O'Dor, an expert in octopuses and squid from Halifax's Dalhousie University and the chief scientist in charge of producing the first marine life census of the planet by 2010."
It's been millenia and we still don't know all the life on our planet. I always look forward to articles like this, they really tell us how little we do know.
"No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms." -- Thomas Jefferson
"A school of fish the size of Manhattan off the New Jersey coast. About 20 million herring were travelling together."
... *sigh*
That soon we'll find ways to make ocean life go extinct in those parts which so far relativly are protected from our interferance.. With our normal area's of fishing drying up quickly, how long will it take before we go and do our thing there too
As in just fell out of the tree of evolution?
...bah....
Those critter are most likely checking out the mini-subs and shaking their heads and thinking "Oh, look! A new species!"