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May 18, 2007

Deep-Sea Alien Abode Discovered

Deep-Sea Alien Abode Discovered by Jeanna Bryner:

Recent expeditions have uncloaked this polar region, finding nearly 600 organisms never described before and challenging some assumptions that deep-sea biodiversity is depressed. The findings also suggest that all of Earth’s marine life originated in Antarctic waters.

Scientists had assumed that the deep sea of the South Pole would follow similar trends in biodiversity documented for the Arctic. “There are less species in the Arctic than around the equator,” said one of the study scientists, Brigitte Ebbe, a taxonomist at the German Center for Marine Biodiversity Research. “People assumed that it would be the same if you went from the equator south, but it didn’t prove to be true at all.”

Very interesting stuff. Related: Altered Oceans, the Crisis at Sea - Ocean Life - Antarctic Robo-sub

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2 Responses to “Deep-Sea Alien Abode Discovered”

Dave Says:
May 18th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
Thats amazing. Whats equally amazing is how we keep finding more and more species. At first thought most people would say that we have explored the whole earth. But there are still so many places we have never seen.
Markk Says:
May 19th, 2007 at 3:50 am
The sheer diversity of life on our planet is nothing short of amazing.