Slashdot Mirror
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
IT's the ANCIENT outpost
The article describes some pretty odd creatures.
I mean, without a picture of that centimeter-in-diameter protozoan, how the hell am I supposed to imagine how it looks like, much less the more important facets of such a discovery... such as how does it taste?
Other then that
;)
Seek also the difference between "then" and "than"
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
My god -- it's full of geeks.
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
that little nugget of news was reason to find cheer, i think
a colossal school of herring? off new jersey? isn't that good news?
why the despondent reaction to that news item? there are certainly tons of news items to find depressing reactions to about ocean life and man's hungry stomach... but that particular nugget of news is reason to cheer, don't you think?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
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!"
but, anyways, here you go, lotsa pictures
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
take the common wood louse, that you can find under any rock in any forest
now, blow it up a thousand fold in size
there you go, running around the ocean floor
amazing indeed
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Everything in Australia is deadly. The spiders are deadly, the snakes are deadly, the crocodiles are deadly, the plants are deadly, the driving in Sydney is definitely deadly, the TV commercials are lethal... I never did find out what happened to those rabbits that escaped from a research facility on a Government-owned island and made it to shore, back in '95. As I recall, they were being used for some research into some lethal pathogen or other. Since there are Australians still alive, I take it that the crisis was brought under control, but that was cutting it a little fine. I guess we can add the Australian Government to things that are lethal, though.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
The word 'pus' is Greek for foot, and the plural in Greek is 'podes', so it would be octopodes -- except the name of the animal is not 'eight-feet', it's 'eight-foot', so it's one 'eight-foot' or 'octopus' and many 'eight-foots' or 'octopuses'.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
are octopuses, not octopi.
Attr. to Patricia T. O'Conner, as is the quote, "Octopi is for suckers".
I am not a crackpot.
Instead of listing all of the deadly things about Australia, it's much easier to list the non-deadly things:
- some of the sheep
Thanks Terry Pratchett.
And for those who don't even get the "NGE" reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_Genesis_Evangeli on_glossary#Second_Impact.
(And yes, I had to look it up myself.)
May contain traces of nut.
Made from the freshest electrons.
As to how you know the critter is extinct: You don't, not with 100% certainty. But if it's over a few million years old, it's a pretty good bet. Most species don't last all that long, geologically speaking. And you're probably also rather misled by the popular reporting. The "Jurassic Shrimp" is actually a new species within a genus (Neoglyphea) with only one previously-known member, which genus is part of a family (Glypheidae)that was previously thought to be extinct. As one of the discoverers said, "the group is less completely extinct than was thought."