Scientist Find New Creatures of Australian Deep SYDNEY (AFP) – Scientists said Sunday they had uncovered new marine animals in their search of previously unexplored Australian waters, along with a bizarre carnivorous sea squirt and ocean-dwelling spiders. A joint US-Australian team spent a month in deep waters off the coast of the southern island of Tasmania to "search for life deeper than any previous voyage in Australian waters," lead researcher Ron Thresher said. What they found were not only species new to science -- including previously undescribed soft corals -- but fresh indications of global warming's threat to the country's unique marine life. "Our sampling documented the deepest known Australian fauna, including a bizarre carnivorous sea squirt, sea spiders and giant sponges, and previously unknown marine communities dominated by gooseneck barnacles and millions of round, purple-spotted sea anemones," Thresher said. Using a submersible car-sized robot named Jason, the team explored a rift in the earth's crust known as the Tasman Fracture Zone, a sheer two kilometre (1.24 mile) drop to 4,000 metres (13,200 feet) below the ocean's surface. Scientists find new creatures of Australian deep - Yahoo! News ^source
wow a plant that's also a animal underwater?? does it move or just stay in one spot and let the ocean current do the work idk cool thread though...
All of these cool aquatic creatures may become extinct, because of the way we pollute the world we live in. It sucks to see creatures such as these become extinct, because of us. I hope you all learned an important lesson. Recycle. Yup.
It's a planimal... Or an ant? But yeah it looks like some type of translucent lamp with eyes. Without light.
Cmon people Well at least someone got the point of this article. I mean seriously guys, trying to name the Pokemon that this creature looks like? This article was meant to show the knowledge that we will lose if we continue our glutinous and harsh ways.
about 60+ percent of earths life forms are still undiscovered in the depths of the ocean its crazy whats still out there