Posted on 04/09/2010 7:23:26 AM PDT by maddog55
Three species of creature, which are only a millimetre long and resemble jellyfish encased in shells, were found 2.2 miles (3.5km) underwater on the ocean floor, 124 miles (200km) off the coast of Crete, in an area with almost no oxygen.
The animals, named Loriciferans due to their protective layer, or lorica, were discovered by a team led by Roberto Danovaro from Marche Polytechnic University in Ancona, Italy.
One of the species has been named Spinoloricus Cinzia, after Dr Danovaro's wife, while the other two, known as Rugiloricus and Pliciloricus, have yet to be formally named.
They were found during three expeditions to find life in the sediment of L'Atlante basin in the Mediterranean, which took place over the course of a decade.
Professor Danovaro told BBC News bodies of multicellular animals had been found in sediment from a similarly oxygen-starved area of the Black Sea, but they were thought to have been carried there from adjacent oxygenated water.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I wonder whyI never seem to read about muslims making discoveries like this? Is it just me?
Well, they used to make all sorts of discoveries before those evil Crusades.
Perhaps leftist politics is really a movement to prod human evolution to a post-homo-sapiens creature that does not consume carbon and does not release carbon dioxide. Project the future US to a nation of politically-crafted modified genetics where people need not consume anything (as long as they get some minimum amount of sun energy exposure each day). They won’t need toilets... at all, and can see without the aid of not only incandescent light bulbs, but without the mercury-filled squigly things as well.
I think Reid and Pelosi actually require oxygen. It’s their ability to live without a soul or any discernible ethics that sets them apart from the human species.
Wow - who would name their daughter "Spinoloricus" ?
That does sound much more the name for a son.
They actually meant “Luciferians” — those non-human creatures of the underworld, whom breathe no oxygen (less they exhale CO2 and poison Mother Gaiya), but rather inhale sulpher and spew vitriolic putrifications from their anal orifices... To wit: that horrible obamination of evil incarnate—the liberals
No those are the ones that can live without a functioning brain...
Meet my wife, Spino, or Cinzia, or Oricus. ;)
Anaerobic
life already adapting to a future where CO2 is taxed...
Jeff Spicoli?
Don’t have a clue what you’re talking about I just posted the story.
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