Don’t adjust your sound as this video has none, but wow, does it have a picture! This is a deepstaria enigmatica, a deep-sea jellyfish that was caught by a remotely operated underwater camera about 5000 feet (1500 m) down. Wikipedia places them “in Antarctic and near-Antarctic seas” and puts their size at “approx. 60 cm” (or almost 2 feet) wide. Impressive, nature. Impressive.
via io9.
This is a living thing. An incredible, living creature.
I don’t know. I think it’s just a trash bag.
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Aquarium researchers are in the news today with an interesting study on the effects of noise pollution on North Atlantic right whales. The fascinating data came in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. Click through for details.
If you click through and read this story you will learn several things.
- Evidence strongly suggests that noise from shipping traffic causes significant stress on North Atlantic right whales.
- There is a publication entitled Proceedings of Royal Society B.
- It took ten years after the data collection for this journal to publish the data.
- There are researchers whose job it is to routinely collect feces from North Atlantic right whales.
neaq:
This right whale research photo of Porcia silhouetted against the sunset is one of the top photographs from this year’s blog posts. See all ten here.
Here’s a whale tale chaser for all that crap.
neaq:
Can a turtle be anorexic?
Not the way people are, but when they stop eating sea turtles can get dangerously thin. This rescued Kemp’s ridley sea turtle is at least 4 pounds underweight. Learn more about all the turtles being treated by the New England Aquarium’s Marine Animal Rescue Team here.
The turtle may be anorexic, but he’s got great hair.
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Put together by National Geographic. Cool way to explore their user submitted photos.
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