Newly Discovered Creatures. Giant Sea Spiders, Giant "glass" Worms...

[Troy Spiral (13)]

Water-breathing 12 legged giant spiders, huge "glass flower" worms and dozens of other never before seen creatures under Antarctica. Found unintentionally underneath (the recently melted) massive ice shelf while studying global climate change.

http://www.breitbart.tv/html/50064.html (video)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtm...19/easea119.xml

[GOREgeouslyDecorated]

dude... those are sweet looking!

[ttogreh]

Should I be inspired by their discovery, or depressed at the mechanism of their discovery?

[Troy Spiral (13)]

My dad referenced this as "the upside to global warming".

[SuZQZ]

It is cool that they've found "creatures" unknown to the world previously, but depressing how it came to be.

[jadnifer]

It's sad to think that global warming could bring in other creatures that could destroy the beautiful creatures that already inhabit that area.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Found unintentionally underneath (the recently melted) massive ice shelf while studying global climate change.

Troy,

I'm sorry to say this... but that bit is a flat out lie.

Yes, they were studying the acidity of the water to measure the affects of Global warming, but not in waters that were under a massive ice shelf that has melted. They just went and studied where no one had ever bothered to study before. The Antarctic Shelf. Which is just the "shallow" waters around the Antarctic continent.

I read the whole page you linked to... and the four pages that it linked to... and none of them said what you did.

[nilhil_glory]

it would be kinda cool if they could get an explorer alvin type sub far underneith the arctic ocean...i wonder what theyd find

[Destroit]

It's sad to think that global warming could bring in other creatures that could destroy the beautiful creatures that already inhabit that area.

Wait...WHAT?

The creatures they found were alive...? I can't read the article quite yet because I'm at work, but damn, that would be freakish.

[Onyx]

Wow. I love the way those spiders move. amazing to watch.

[jadnifer]

Wow. I love the way those spiders move. amazing to watch.

It is amazing. All living creatures are amazing in their own way if you just take the time to watch or find out that they actually exist.

[CandyQuackenbush]

Those spiders are pretty sweet! And creepy! The glass worms kind of look like those huge hand blown orniments that my mom has on her Christmas tree.

It's amazing that reserchers found life that far underwater, and its really cool that you can see the type of life that it is. With no color, no eyes, nothing that would be appealing to lets say someone who goes suba diving in Flordia. But it amazing the hell outta me. Mostly the fact that you are seeing something that hasn't been touched by humans, or made into a mascot of a team or something.

[Homicidalheathen]

wow.

How long before we have 'deep sea life' aquariums.......?

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Never. We cant, within a cost affective range, create that enviroment.

it would have to be cold, almost lightless and under high pressure.

[ttogreh]

I don't know about commercial aquariums, but It's certainly possible for us to replicate the environment in a lab...

At great cost, though.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

It's amazing that reserchers found life that far underwater, and its really cool that you can see the type of life that it is.

No it's not. They were only at about 4000 - 5000 feet. We have found life far deeper than that. We found Sea Stars at 25,000 feet and Sea Cucumbers at 33,000 feet. 33,000 is about as deep as the Ocean gets... and we found life there... 4000-5000 feet is not really that far.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

BTW.. at these depths... the pressure is roughly 150 atmospeheres.... Thats about 2200 pounds per square inch of pressure.