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reply posted on 7-2-2009 @ 09:55 PM by The All Seeing I
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latest find...
February 5, 2009--The Walea pygmy seahorse is one of five species named in a flurry of recent seahorse discoveries from coral reefs in the Red Sea
and Indonesia. All five are less than an inch tall (2.5 centimeters) and are among the tiniest known vertebrates.
source: news.nationalgeographic.com...
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reply posted on 7-2-2009 @ 09:59 PM by ravenshadow13
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So sweet... they're finding all sorts of new species on Plateaus now, too.
Totally my favorite thing about zoology. Finding new species.
Completely what I want to do with my life.
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reply posted on 18-2-2009 @ 08:45 PM by The All Seeing I
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Not quite tiny islands, but the poles do share a common characteristic in being very isolated.
Odd, Identical Species Found at Both Poles
February 15, 2009--Spinning a "mucus net" off its paddle-like foot-wings to trap algae and other foods, the swimming snail species Limacina
helicinia is no bigger than a bean. But the discovery that it and at least 234 other species inhabit both Arctic and Antarctic waters is big news to
biologists.
Finding so many species inhabiting both Poles "startled" scientists, according to a statement today from the Census of Marine Life, an international
project to assess all marine life--past, present, and future--by 2010. Among the other dual-Pole species: whales, worms, and crustaceans.
Exactly where these species came from and how they ended up a world apart--with comparatively warm oceans in between--remains a mystery, the
scientists said.
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reply posted on 24-2-2009 @ 06:41 PM by The All Seeing I
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Just when i thought i had seen it all... i stumble across this
fish with a transparent head:
Macropinna macrostoma (common name "barreleyes") can rotate its eyes to a vertical position; because its head is transparent, it can then see
predators or prey above itself without moving its body!
Two net-caught individuals contained fragments of jellyfish, which must have been their last meal. Such a potentially painful dinner requires
incredible stealth, so it’s now thought that barreleyes carefully maneuvers its body near such stinging organisms, keeping its “eyes on the
prize,” as the researchers said, throughout the entire hunt. Its tiny mouth then picks at the victim while a transparent shield protects the
fish’s eyes.
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reply posted on 26-2-2009 @ 06:35 PM by noobfun
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here ya go just spotted this posted else where figured id mouch it over here and steal credit ^_^
hey look what i found .... *honest  *
let u all marvel at the funny fihy and the submarines pilots capture fail
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reply posted on 22-3-2009 @ 09:21 PM by The All Seeing I
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Truly alien... " New "Rainbow Glow" Jellyfish
Found".
It's as if some of these came right out of a sifi novel.
I'd love to see this one in action too.
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reply posted on 22-3-2009 @ 09:40 PM by amazed
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Oh, amazing LOL. I love the pics and videos, some of these creatures are just beautiful. I will be showing these pictures to my children, they will
love em as well.
Peace
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reply posted on 24-3-2009 @ 06:39 PM by mblahnikluver
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Wow those are very cool looking and the colors and patterns on some are amazing! I liked the unidentified crab and spider crab 
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reply posted on 26-3-2009 @ 01:20 AM by The All Seeing I
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reply posted on 7-5-2009 @ 04:19 PM by The All Seeing I
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reply posted on 7-5-2009 @ 04:39 PM by Gawdzilla
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Originally posted by Anonymous ATS
I may be completely wrong, but with all these people getting ticked off about how stupid it is to deny evolution, couldn't God have given animals the
ability to evolve? Idk it just makes a lot more sense to me to stop everyone from freakin out at eachother 
Leave god out of it and you get the same results. No need for the Great Sky Fairy.
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reply posted on 7-5-2009 @ 05:09 PM by rhinoceros
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A friend of mine was part of this team. I was sooo jealous when I heard she was going
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reply posted on 7-5-2009 @ 07:04 PM by The All Seeing I
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Originally posted by Gawdzilla
Originally posted by Anonymous ATS
I may be completely wrong, but with all these people getting ticked off about how stupid it is to deny evolution, couldn't God have given animals the
ability to evolve? Idk it just makes a lot more sense to me to stop everyone from freakin out at eachother
Leave god out of it and you get the same results. No need for the Great Sky Fairy.
A very accurate way of applying Occam's Razor (OR). Isaac Newton stated the rule of OR as... "We are to admit no more causes of natural things than
such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances." Ernst Mach advocated a version of OR which stating that "Scientists must use the
simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses."
Besides Anonymous ATS... if god is really behind evolution, s/he must be one cruel sadistic mofo. Survival of the fittest is a truly torturous
process. I think it would be more relevant to state/study the evolution of religion... in that it plays on mankind’s greed, hopes and fears to gain
global dominance.
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reply posted on 26-5-2009 @ 11:00 PM by The All Seeing I
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Each year the International Institute for Species Exploration announces a list of the Top 10 New Species for the preceding calendar year.
Here is IISE's Top 10 New Species for 2008 and 2009.
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reply posted on 28-5-2009 @ 05:24 PM by The All Seeing I
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Symbolically significant as well as fascinating in scale... from the 2008 list ... i found this high rez image of the Barbados Threadsnake
(Leptotyphlops carlae) The world’s tiniest, quarter-wrapping only found in Barbados.
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