Friday, April 02, 2010

New creatures from the seamounts

An 18-month expedition to seamounts hidden under the seas near Madagascar has brought in a treasure trove of new species. The biggest new species nabbed was the "deal fish," two meters long, but there may be hundreds more new species among the expedition's 7,000 specimens. Most are invertebrates, including one poetically named the "snot flower."

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