Submarine discovers new animals off Australia

A DEEP sea submarine exploration off Australia's southern coast has discovered new species of animals and more evidence of the destructive impact of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide on deep-sea corals.

This is a joint U.S. and Australian researchers project off the coast of Tasmania. They have been looking 2km - 4km down (amazing!) and have found some freaky new critters including, "...bizarre carnivorous sea squirt, sea spiders and giant sponges, and previously unknown marine communities dominated by gooseneck barnacles and millions of round, purple-spotted sea anemones..."

They also found some deep sea coral they think is 10,000 years old - just incredible...

Full article: Submarine discovers new animals off Australia

This article is totally lamed by the lack of images, it's a shame really

Do you think that animals at such depths are affected by man?

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[edit on 18/1/2009 by spitefulgod]

I agree but I found a couple of pictures HERE

Does man effect them? Well, I would think not at this depth - let's hope not anyway...

[edit on 18/1/09 by WatchNLearn]

Originally posted by WatchNLearn
I agree but I found a couple of pictures HERE

Thanks for the pics. I was excited by the thread title and so sorely let down by the image-less article. It seems like it is totally pointless to even publish anything like that without pics. Thanks for the new link

[edit on 18-1-2009 by Luciferdescending]