Posted on 06/21/2015 2:13:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The creatures hail from a rarely before explored region of the ocean's water column.
Shallow waters can be easily explored by divers and the deep sea is now starting to be scanned by robotic submersibles. But there’s an in between part of the ocean where its too dark for divers to see and too shallow for bots to bother with. The area 150 to 500 feet deep is called the Twilight Zone, at the California Academy of Sciences. And recent expedition to those mysterious waters just off the coast of the Philippines revealed more than 100 new species, reports Grace Singer for KQED Science.
“More people have walked on the surface of the moon, than have visited the Twilight Zone,” Steven Bedard of Cal Academy told Singer. In this case, skilled divers used special equipment that recycles their breath by filtering out unused oxygen from the carbon dioxide in their exhalations to make the visit. The team also used decompression chambers to help marine life survive the transition from the depths to the surface. This video from the Academy explores the technology....
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And now every single one of them will have to be protected, even though we knew nothing about it.
For all we know, they could be new. God could have put then there just yesterday.
Global Warming will wipe them all out in the next 6.5 years. The science on this is settled.
“Watch these idiots, I’ll throw something new in and they’ll think its been there forever and necessary to the planet’s survival.”
I doubt if they’re new but the natives/old timers are probably never asked. There’s really never anything new.
Well gosh darn...why aren't we all wearing one of those?? We could save the world.
One of the ironies of the modern world -- when we find unknown animals we do not say "Look at this new thing that evolution has produced!" Instead we say, "Aren't we good scientists, finding all this cool stuff that has been here for millions and millions of years!"
We see life forms adapt. That's not earth shattering in any way.
We DON'T see new life forms evolve.
We just find old stuff that popped into existence long ago.
Christ, those jar-heads’ll screw anything in the phil’s.
Are there extinct species? Sure there are, so why is it our job to save all species all the time even when to our detriment?
Semper Fidelis!
One hundred species went extinct yesterday so it’s a wash.
Can’t be true, we were just told climate change is causing a “mass extinction event”.
How many of them are good to eat?
Ask the fishmongers in the nearby villages.
Aw come on! They’re all Fukushima mutants!
Cool stuff!
Scuba divers don’t normally go 300-500 feet, but animals live there that we’ve never seen before. This is true scientific discovery.
Enabled by advanced oxygen rebreather systems.
Thanks for posting!
They’re not “new” species; they’ve been here all along.
“If it wasn’t for AGW, there would have been 500 new species.”
Pope Francis
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