Topic: ‘New continent’ and species discovered in Atlantic study

[Orstio]

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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.

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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[Orstio]

More pics: An amphipod, and a viperfish.

[Astronuc]

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

[remcook]

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!

[Orstio]

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. :)