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misteriozna stvorenja U PLANINAMA LUDILA!


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Giant Sea Spiders and Many Mysterious Creatures Detected Around Antarctic
- Gigantism in the freezing waters
By: Stefan Anitei, Science Editor
We are looking for new worlds on other planets, and we don't even know the worlds hosted by our own. A large array of giant mysterious creatures have been found by a recent two-month expedition in the freezing waters of Antarctica, including huge sea spiders and worms. The new specimens have been found inhabiting the Antarctic sea bed at depths of up to 6,500 ft (2,000 m). Gigantism is a common phenomenon for many abyssal animals (giant squids up to 12 m (40 ft) long are just one example).

"Gigantism is very common in Antarctic waters. We have collected huge worms, giant crustaceans, and sea spiders the size of dinner plates," said Martin Riddle, the Australian Antarctic Division scientist who led this international census of the Antarctic marine life.

The samples are already being identified and DNA is investigated in many university centers worldwide.

"Not all of the creatures that we found could be identified and it is very likely that some new species will be recorded as a result of these voyages," said Graham Hosie, head of the Collaborative East Antarctic Marine Census.

The larger project is mapping fauna and flora in the Antarctic's Southern Ocean for assessing the impact of climate change on the Antarctic marine environment. 3 ships were involved in the recent expedition: Aurora Australis (Australia), L'Astrolabe (France), and Umitaka Maru (Japan).

The work is part of an even larger project to map the biodiversity of the world's oceans. The French and Japanese ships investigated the mid- and upper-level environment, while Aurora Australis checked deeper waters with remote-controlled cameras.

"In some places every inch of the sea floor is covered in life. In other places we can see deep scars and gouges where icebergs scour the sea floor as they pass by. Among the bizarre-looking creatures the scientists spotted were tunicates, plankton-eating animals that resemble slender glass structures up to a yard tall standing in fields like poppies," said Riddle.

"They were all bottom dwellers so they were all evolved in different ways to live down on the seabed in the dark. So many of them had very large eyes—very strange-looking fish," added Riddle.



Giant Sea Spiders
Giant sea spiders: enough to give the screaming abdabs to arachnophobes the globe around. A recent scientific research vessel was trawling the deep waters around Antarctica and found, along with armoured shrimp, giant sea spiders that reach up to a foot across.
Such a giant sea spider would make somthing of a show if it came up the plughole into your bath tub, don't you think? Fortunately they live in cold water an I always have hot baths....but still.
Scientists studying Antarctic waters have filmed and captured giant sea creatures, like sea spiders the size of dinner plates and jellyfish with 6m tentacles.
A fleet of three Antarctic marine research ships returned to Australia this week, ending a summer expedition to the Southern Ocean where they carried out a census of life in the icy ocean and on its floor, more than 1000m below the surface.
"Gigantism is common in Antarctic waters - we have collected huge worms, giant crustaceans and sea spiders the size of dinner plates," Australian scientist Martin Riddle, voyage leader on the research ship Aurora Australis, said.
6 metre tentacles? No cheese before bed tonight I think, that won't help my dreams. The giant sea spiders were bad enough....
The giant sea spiders, along with giant worms and crustaceans, are among up to 1500 species that Australian, Japanese and French scientists have brought back from the icy waters off Antarctica as part of a two-year census of marine life. With an Australian ship scouring the ocean floor and the French and Japanese searching for life in the mid and upper reaches, the scientists conducted a count of species known as the Collaborative East Antarctic Marine Census.
Giant sea spiders, huge worms, fields of glass-like filter feeders and `flabbergasting' fish were among the ocean life recovered from the floor of the Southern Ocean by researchers aboard the Aurora Australis, voyage leader Martin Riddle said.
So stunning was the wealth of discoveries, the ship's recent voyage south as part of the Collaborative East Antarctic Marine Census would go down as one of the great marine science voyages of all time, Dr Riddle said.
Using trawls and underwater video photography, scientists had ventured as far as 2km below the surface.
"We were amazed at what we found," Dr Riddle said. "We went there with certain expectations, but those expectations were far exceeded."
"We saw giant worms, giant crustaceans, giant sea spiders, glass-like tunicates, enormously diverse areas in some places.
Among the bizarre-looking creatures the scientists spotted were tunicates, plankton-eating animals that resemble slender glass structures up to a yard tall "standing in fields like poppies," Riddle said.

"Gigantism is very common in Antarctic waters -- we have collected huge worms, giant crustaceans and sea spiders the size of dinner plates," Riddle added.
Giant sea spiders and other species are among thousands of creatures—a quarter of them previously unknown—found in the icy depths of the Southern Ocean.

na ovom linku ima i linkova za video snimke tih čuda:
http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/2008/02/giant-sea-spide.html



SYDNEY, Australia - Scientists investigating the icy waters of Antarctica said Tuesday they have collected mysterious creatures including giant sea spiders and huge worms in the murky depths.

Australian experts taking part in an international program to take a census of marine life in the ocean at the far south of the world collected specimens from up to 6,500 feet beneath the surface, and said many may never have been seen before.
Some of the animals far under the sea grow to unusually large sizes, a phenomenon called gigantism that scientists still do not fully understand.
"Gigantism is very common in Antarctic waters," Martin Riddle, the Australian Antarctic Division scientist who led the expedition, said in a statement. "We have collected huge worms, giant crustaceans and sea spiders the size of dinner plates."
The specimens were being sent to universities and museums around the world for identification, tissue sampling and DNA studies.
"Not all of the creatures that we found could be identified and it is very likely that some new species will be recorded as a result of these voyages," said Graham Hosie, head of the census project.
The expedition is part of an ambitious international effort to map life forms in the Antarctic Ocean, also known as the Southern Ocean, and to study the impact of forces such as climate change on the undersea environment.
Three ships — Aurora Australis from Australia, France's L'Astrolabe and Japan's Umitaka Maru — returned recently from two months in the region as part of the Collaborative East Antarctic Marine Census. The work is part of a larger project to map the biodiversity of the world's oceans.
The French and Japanese ships sought specimens from the mid- and upper-level environment, while the Australian ship plumbed deeper waters with remote-controlled cameras.
"In some places every inch of the sea floor is covered in life," Riddle said. "In other places we can see deep scars and gouges where icebergs scour the sea floor as they pass by."
Among the bizarre-looking creatures the scientists spotted were tunicates, plankton-eating animals that resemble slender glass structures up to a yard tall "standing in fields like poppies," Riddle said.
Other animals were equally baffling.
"They had fins in various places, they had funny dangly bits around their mouths," Riddle told reporters. "They were all bottom dwellers so they were all evolved in different ways to live down on the sea bed in the dark. So many of them had very large eyes — very strange looking fish."
Scientists are planning a follow-up expedition in 10 to 15 years to examine the effects of climate changes on the region's environment.

scallop:
Štos je u tome što sad svi traže svoj podvodni greben da bi mogli da pobodu svoju zastavu. Pa da pevaju: Haj'mo na morski greben... :evil:
 
Ono što nama pokazuju deo je manjeg ugovora (lesser contract). Možda kosoki nabasaju na nešto za krkanje i možda Branson nađe nešto da naloži Virgin Air.

U svakom slučaju, što rekla moja komšinica Obrena kad je bila mala: "Nosim tanjir!" :roll:

Alexdelarge:
A niko nije zeleo da slusa smerni poziv stanovitog profesora Dyer-a: Okanite se istrazivanja Antarktika...Sta vele, ima li shoggoth-a? :evil:

Alex:
Gledao sam snimak na Nation. Geograph. sajtu - baš su spooky. :shock:

Loengrin:
A sad da se svi lepo pomolimo da ne dođe do globalnog zahlađenja  :evil:

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