After the Glass

The man in his eternal and stupid arrogance, thought to understand everything about our planet and 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 in exploring new ways of living history: The "Census of Marine Life."

The CVM, international project involving 344 scientists from 34 different nationalities, has just recorded 17,650 species, of which virtually 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.

Have been discovered thousands of colorful invertebrates, corals and sea urchins are capable of surviving a kilometer below the sea surface. Of this amount include a new type creature octoped two feet long 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 you put this example: of the 680 specimens of copepods (a type of very small crustaceans maxilópodos) 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 such an immense variety of creatures in such tricky conditions.

To illustrate a little better I leave this post a video in which you can see some of the species discovered.

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