Amazing Forms Of Life

I was reading the news about deep-sea creatures found in the Atlantic Ocean, and thought I might share some of this with you. The report speaks about mysterious creatures that are found in the deep sea. In one place the researchers found Atlantic shrimp, which was living around a vent that was releasing water heated to 765 degree Fahrenheit!

An underwater peak in the Coral Sea was home to a type of shrimp thought to have gone extinct 50 million years ago.

More than 3 miles beneath the Sargasso Sea, in the Atlantic, researchers collected a dozen new species eating each other or living on organic material that drifts down from above.

"Animals seem to have found a way to make a living just about everywhere," said Jesse Ausubel of the Sloan Foundation, discussing the findings of year six of the census of marine life.

Added Ron O'Dor, a senior scientist with the census: "We can't find any place where we can't find anything new".

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