Posted on 01/16/2016 6:24:13 PM PST by presidio9
A breed of sea snake thought to be extinct for years was recently discovered off the west coast of Australia, another in a string of similar findings among species scientists believed were lost forever.
It was the first time the species of snakes was seen in more than 15 years since disappearing from the Timor Sea, according to researchers at Australia's James Cook University who identified the snakes.
The discovery of the Short Nose sea snake was confirmed after an Australia Parks and Wildlife officer sent a photo to researchers for identification, the university said.
The study's lead author, Blanche D'Anastasi, of the university's ARC Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, said the findings would give scientists a second opportunity to protect the species.
"But in order to succeed in protecting them we will need to monitor populations as well as undertake research into understanding their biology and the threats they face," D'Anastasi said in a statement.
D'Anastasi noted that the pair of snakes was believed to be "courting," indicating that there is a breeding population and offering a hope for a more sustainable comeback.
"We were blown away," D'Anastasi said. "These potentially extinct snakes were there in plain sight living on one of Australia’s natural icons, Ningaloo Reef."
A second breed of extremely rare Leaf Scaled sea snake was also recently found in Australia's Shark Bay, several hundred miles away from the species normal territory, which D’Anastasi called a "real surprise."
Both species had vanished from the Timor Sea, though in recent years scientists had seen examples of dead specimens.
The sightings are significant because it increases the known geographic range and habitats for the snakes, though their disappearance in the Timor Sea could not be explained, according to the study.
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That’s fair enough.
I do have grave reservations though whenever scientists expound on things.
Look at what’s going on with Black Holes now. Some of them are saying there’s no such thing. They are reworking what the phenomenon is right now.
So I do listen and I find it all interesting, but I often keep it in reserve until the next morphing of accepted thought.
Shark Bay Stromatolites are living examples of the ancient life forms.
You are correct. I forgot. My bad.
Lumps looks like what’s in my cattle pastures....
The idea behind black holes makes perfect sense. Because escape velocity increases proportionally to a body's mass. At some point escape velocity reaches and surpasses light speed.
But I get what you're saying. The history of science is littered with mistakes and revisions. Troubling thing is, it's not that way with so-called "man-made global warming". There, it's all "settled" with no room for debate.
Close. There are some physicists who dispute the nature of the event horizon of black holes.
But we do now know, for a fact that they do exist -while we can not see them, we do have images of their glowing accretion disks through telescopes, and we can infer the existence of others by the gravitation effect that they have on nearby visible bodies.
Unlikely that we will find passenger pigeons. Apparently they need a flock of significant size to stimulate the hormones that lead to breeding. A flock of the size needed would not remain hidden for a century. More likely to be able to reengineer the dodo through DNA work than the passenger pigeon species.
MADE ME LAUGH.
My wife and daughter say that I am one of those, and I agree.
With regard to global warming, you’re spot on.
The other day I did actually read an article addressing Black Holes stating they are questioning if they actually exist.
Now I understand the reason they have postulated them, based on bent light and captured light.
There has to be an enormous (very scientific word there) amount of gravitational pull to do that, so I’m not sure what the next full theory will be.
I would love to see a clone of a wooly manmmoth! If you could get one—train it to do tricks—it could headline Ringling Brothers Barnum and Baily Circus! I would love to clone the passenger pidgeon—extinct now—they were said to taste great! Cone em’Raise em on Ranches, sell em to restaurants for rich folks to eat. Same with the dodo bird. There could well be a peck of money in bringing back lost animals.
The Passenger Pigeon *might* be revived from, believe it or not, old feather pillows, but the question becomes, “why?”
That’s only cause we ate’em all.
There has to be an enormous (very scientific word there) amount of gravitational pull to do that, so I’m not sure what the next full theory will be.
Again, no scientist disputes the existence of black holes. The skeptics (and Steven Hawking was one of them) were disputing a commonly held belief about black holes.
Have you heard about the Carville serpent with a head that looks remotely human?
Cause they taste good!
You beat me to it. Everything else is attributed to it, why not this?
Thank you for the clarification.
I was actually going from the article I read a few weeks ago, that made it seem more like they were reassessing everything.
I appreciate the correction.
Take it from an Old One, they were indeed tasty
A far cry from my experience in being processed by scientific academia >40 yr ago.
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