Friday, March 21, 2008

Weird Wildlife Found in Antarctic waters

It seems like there is some weird stuff living in the Ross Sea up in the antarctic.
Large sea spiders, jellyfish with 12-foot tentacles, huge sea snails
and starfish the size of big food platters were found during a 50-day voyage,
marine scientist Don Robertson said.

Cold temperatures, a small number of predators, high levels of oxygen
in the sea water and even longevity could explain the size of some specimens,
said Robertson, a scientist with NIWA.


It sounds like a D&D sort of environment. It would be the kind of thing you would see in a Ocean Giants abode under a frozen sea. Kind of something above the Spine of the World in FR.

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