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Interesting stuff for sure. We've known about a few odd critters that live in the deeps for years, but usually as a result of catching them by chance while fishing and a few small scale studies conducted long ago. Creatures that produce their own light or use smell and sound to navigate and find food, some that use something similar to sonar, and some are really strange looking. I'm surprised to find out that many different critters are down there though.

The extreme depths have been the birth of all life in the last 2 huge incidents that wiped out most of the life on the planet. Gee I like the hiostory channel! It's from here that life will resume after the next big catastrophe, as well, more than likely.

There's new specie discoveries happening on land too. I heard that years ago a development company was bulldozing an area in FLorida and the workers were attacked by vampire frogs. That's right, frogs that sucked blood. They stopped bulldozing and called U.S. wildlife services to investigate, but what bulldozing was completed destroyed the habitat and no vampire frogs were ever found anywhere else. It must have been an isolated colony. I thnk we can do fine without vampire frogs...There has also been new sightings of animals that were long thought to be extinct. In the last few years Ivory-Billed Woodpeckers were sighted in an Arkansas Wildlife refuge, and for many years a specie of trout (Blue Backed Trout) were thought to be long extinct but were found again in a lake in Maine. There's also a specie of fish, closely related to walleye and perch that used to be prolific in the Great Lakes but was thought to be extinct until it was caught in a smaller lake somewhere in Ohio. I forget the name of the specie but many years ago it was so plentiful it was commercially harvested in the Great Lakes. Fisheries and Wildlife services are attempting to reproduce enough of them to someday re-stock Lake Erie with them.

Wait till they find those aliens hiding out a few miles down. Then we'll have plenty to harp about.

Just another day in Paradise !!!

A testament to the diversity of life. Unfortunately, man is responsible for thousands of species going extinct that will never even be documented.

A testament to the diversity of life. Unfortunately, man is responsible for thousands of species going extinct that will never even be documented.

And viruses and bacteria are responsible for the deaths of millions of people...

Such is the fragile condition of life in all its forms. For one species to thrive, another usually has to die. And sometimes to the point of extinction.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS !
Come on! Oh yeah silent brother of mankind lain still in dark waters yet to be revealed.

Wait till they find those aliens hiding out a few miles down. Then we'll have plenty to harp about.

Just another day in Paradise !!!