I am very excited to read that Marine Scientists have descovered 10 new underwater species. The work took place along the mid Atlantic ridge, where the warm water of the South meets the cold water from the Gulf stream in the North.
"The terrain looked the same, mirror images of each other, but that is where the similarity ended. We were surprised at how different the animals were on either side of the ridge which is just tens of miles apart. It seemed like we were in a scene from Alice Through the Looking Glass." Professor Monty Priede from the University of Aberdeen
"The terrain looked the same, mirror images of each other, but that is where the similarity ended. We were surprised at how different the animals were on either side of the ridge which is just tens of miles apart. It seemed like we were in a scene from Alice Through the Looking Glass." Professor Monty Priede from the University of Aberdeen
Here are four out of the ten beautiful photographs taken by David Shale:
A Benthic Holothurian (Peniagone Diaphana) from the mid Atlantic ridge, which was caught swimming above the sea floor.
Bathypelagic Ctenophore from the benthic boundary layer, was found attached to seafloor by adhesive tentacles.
The delicate Polynoid Polychaete worm was caught at appoximately 2,500m below sea level.
Basket Star. Cousin to the starfish, it feeds on plankton and shrimp and uses its arms to walk.
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