After the crystal

The man in his eternal and stupid arrogance, thought to understand everything about our planet and about life in general. Even in an act of arrogance, some "scientists" are saying it's impossible that there is life anywhere else than our battered blue planet.

Fortunately for us there is a group of scientists who still believe there is still much to discover on our own planet and is making one of the largest projects exploring new forms of life history: The "Census of Marine Life."

The CVM, an international project involving 344 scientists from 34 different nationalities, has just recorded 17 650 species, of which almost all were unknown, the so-called twilight zone of seas and oceans. The twilight zone is located where no sunlight reaches, between 200 and 5,000 meters deep.

They have discovered thousands of colorful invertebrates, corals and sea urchins are capable of surviving a kilometer below the sea surface. Of this amount of baby octopuses include a new type of two meters in length which they christened as Dumbo for their fins in the form of giant ears, a marine worm that ate was caught while crude oil in the Gulf of Mexico, or a larva transparent crawling on the seabed 2.6 miles from building on its many tentacles.

To give you an idea of what all this means I put this example: of the 680 specimens of copepods (a type of shellfish maxilópodos small) were collected only known seven.

Those responsible for the census described as "indescribable," the number of species discovered and have been assured it will be challenging to understand how it managed to survive an immense variety of creatures in such difficult conditions.

To illustrate a little better that I leave a video input where you can see some of the species discovered.

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