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PHOTOS: Odd, Identical Species Found at Both Poles
nationalgeographic ^
| February 15, 2009
Posted on 02/15/2009 10:11:52 AM PST by JoeProBono
Spinning a "mucus net" off its paddle-like foot-wings to trap algae and other foods, the swimming snail species Limacina helicinia is no bigger than a bean. But the discovery that it and at least 234 other species inhabit both Arctic and Antarctic waters is big news to biologists.
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Pets/Animals; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: antarctic; arctic; catastrophism; flemath; hapgood; poleshift; shrimp; snail; species
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To: JoeProBono
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02/15/2009 10:14:16 AM PST
by
fleagle
( An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. -Winston Churchill)
To: JoeProBono
Interesting. Perhaps the oceans between the two poles weren’t always as warm as they are now.
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posted on
02/15/2009 10:14:47 AM PST
by
Scutter
To: fleagle
I thought the article was about living species and not petrified or calcified fossils?
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posted on
02/15/2009 10:18:58 AM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
02/15/2009 10:21:14 AM PST
by
mysterio
To: JoeProBono
They evolved from ice cubes, silly!. Those that tried to go into warm water melted.
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posted on
02/15/2009 10:25:44 AM PST
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: DJ MacWoW
My bad. ;>)
It is a really interesting article, didn't mean to detract with that fossil photo.
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02/15/2009 10:28:59 AM PST
by
fleagle
( An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. -Winston Churchill)
To: JoeProBono
” Odd, Identical Species Found at Both Poles”
It is simply miraculous how that darwinian evolution mechanism works so, so, universally!
Hail Darwin! He’s dead, sure, but we still worship him!
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posted on
02/15/2009 10:29:11 AM PST
by
aMorePerfectUnion
("I, El Rushbo -- and I say this happily -- have hijacked Obama's honeymoon.")
To: mysterio
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posted on
02/15/2009 10:30:13 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: fleagle
I understand. There are just some fossils at lunchtime that should be left unseen. ;-)
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posted on
02/15/2009 10:33:30 AM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
To: DJ MacWoW
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02/15/2009 10:39:50 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: fleagle
There are just so many levels of wrong with you, WTFDYHTDTF?
you really are a mean person!
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posted on
02/15/2009 10:40:28 AM PST
by
SERE_DOC
(Today's politicians, living proof why we have and need a second amendment to the constitution.)
To: JoeProBono
Exactly where these species came from and how they ended up a world apart--with comparatively warm oceans in between--remains a mystery, the scientists said. No it isn't a mystery at all. Read up a little on invasive marine species and how they travel in the ballast tanks of ships.
All of the things in the pictures are small swimmers. Now think about the ships that do cold water research near the North Pole. Anyone want to bet they have ballast tanks.
Next think about what happens when it gets warm at the North Pole. That's right, it gets cold at the South Pole. Where do you think those ships go?
To: fleagle
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02/15/2009 10:46:46 AM PST
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
"Census of Marine Life....." now a function of the White House?
Where's the WH chef when you need him?
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posted on
02/15/2009 10:47:03 AM PST
by
Daffynition
("Beauty is in the sty of the beholder." ~ Joe 6-pack)
To: Daffynition
I’d rather look at Helen Thomas.
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posted on
02/15/2009 10:49:22 AM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
To: CurlyDave
Invasive Marine Species
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02/15/2009 10:51:36 AM PST
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: DJ MacWoW
Prawn of the Dead ...is prawn.
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posted on
02/15/2009 10:51:43 AM PST
by
Daffynition
("Beauty is in the sty of the beholder." ~ Joe 6-pack)
To: Daffynition
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02/15/2009 10:57:06 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: CurlyDave
BTW there are several species of whales that migrate to and from the Antarctic and Arctic every year. I think that they've been doing it for several hundred millennia more than ballast tanks have been traveling this route. I suppose that these fishies have been hitchin' a ride with whales.
This map shows the range of ther Blue whale and you can see that he can be found everywhere.
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posted on
02/15/2009 10:59:50 AM PST
by
Young Werther
(Julius Caesar (Quae Cum Ita Sunt. Since these things are so.))
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