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Title: ‘New continent’ and species discovered in Atlantic study
Post by: Orstio on August 19, 2007, 12:47:49 PM
Click here to read the article ... (http://www.everything-science.com/content/view/215/98/)
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Professor Monty Priede, Director of the University’s highly-acclaimed Oceanlab, along with colleague Dr Nicola King, and students Jessica Craig, Claudia Alt and James Hawkins, are part of the science team on board the ship.

(http://www.everything-science.com/images/stories/squid1.jpg)
The jewelled squid, Histioteuthis, from 200-500m.  Copyright David Shale, 2007.


Professor Priede said: “It is like surveying a new continent half way between America and Europe. We can recognise the creatures, but familiar ones are absent and unusual ones are common. We are finding species that are rare or unknown elsewhere in the world.”
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Title: Re: ‘New continent’ and species discovered in Atlantic study
Post by: Orstio on August 19, 2007, 12:49:42 PM
More pics: An amphipod, and a viperfish.


Title: ‘New continent’ and species discovered in Atlantic study
Post by: Astronuc on August 19, 2007, 04:50:00 PM
The only problem with the new continent is that it's covered with water, although that's not a problem if you're a fish.  ;D


Title: Re: ‘New continent’ and species discovered in Atlantic study
Post by: remcook on August 22, 2007, 02:49:40 AM
cool, the oceans are about as unexplored as the moon.

i just posted that it was cool that you could post from the article itself, but that didn't seem to work... :S
good job on all the new articles though!


Title: Re: ‘New continent’ and species discovered in Atlantic study
Post by: Orstio on August 22, 2007, 03:05:16 AM
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i just posted that it was cool that you could post from the article itself, but that didn't seem to work... :S

One more thing I'll need to get up to date.  Thanks.  ;)

Edit -- Fixed. :)