What is good..WATER

WATER, life.

These images are of some deep sea animals that people don't know.

"An estimated 50-80% of all life on earth is found under the ocean surface and the oceans contain 99% of the living space on the planet. Less than 10% of that space has been explored by humans. 85% of the area and 90% of the volume constitute the dark, cold environment we call the deep sea. The average depth of the ocean is3,795m. The average height of the land is 840 m" - http://marinebio.org/MarineBio/Facts/

There is a current project going on called the 'Census of Marine Life'. This project is currently exploring deeper and further then other scientists have been able to go and documenting all the animals and objects the find within the sea.

Below are some images taken by the Census of Marine Life.

A new species of Epimera, a 25 mm long amphipod

crustacean sampled near Elephant Island

Antarctic Peninsula, during the Polarstern cruise.
Christmas tree worm found at Lizard Island.

Antarctic Ice fish. As an adaptation to low

temperatures, the Antarctic ice fish has no red blood

pigments and no red blood cells. Thus the blood

is more fluid and the animals save energy otherwise

to pump blood through their body. Interestingly

the brittle stars are overgrown by a yellow

sponge.

This bling lobster with bizarre chelipeds belongs to

the very rare genus 'Thaumastochelopsis', previously

know only from four specimens of two species in

Australia. The specimen collected during AURORA

2007 from about 200 m is a new species.

First observation of the living colour pattern of the

recently described Antarctic sea anemone Stephan-

thus antarcticus.