May 05, 2006

Bugs of the deep.

Posted by apostropher

BBC News:

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A three-week voyage of discovery in the Atlantic has returned with tiny animals which appear new to science. They include waif-like plankton with delicate translucent bodies related to jellyfish, hundreds of microscopic shrimps, and several kinds of fish. The voyage is part of the ongoing Census of Marine Life (CoML) which aims to map ocean life throughout the world. [...]

Thousands of specimens were captured during the cruise, of which 500 have been catalogued. They include shrimp-like copepods and ostracods, swimming worms, and tiny jellyfish—some of the gooiest and most fragile animals in the sea. Most are adjusted to living in the cool deep, where temperatures hover around one or two Celsius.

A few more nifty pictures are available at the link. Also, while it has nothing to do with either bugs or the deep sea, this NASA video of the Huygens probe descent to Titan's surface is pretty mesmerizing, what with all the bells and whistles.

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Awwww...look at the cute little floating cthulhu-spawn head!!

Posted by: cheerylilgoth at May 5, 2006 10:42 AM
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dude, i highly, HIGHLY recommend the NASA video the apostropher has for us, the thing is magnificent. magical, and damn near ...i'm speachless.
good lookin out 'pos. (that's slang for apostropher.)
man... does it smell like Up Dog in here or is it just me?

Posted by: at May 5, 2006 10:44 PM
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