Friday, 1. December 2006
Topic: NATURE - on December 1, 2006 at 10:57:00 AM CET
Bizarre deep-sea creatures imaged off New Zealand
The weird and wonderful creatures living by methane vents in the southwest Pacific have been photographed for the first time (see images right and below).
The deep-sea communities live around methane seeps off New Zealand’s eastern coast, up to 1 kilometre beneath the sea surface. The team of 21 researchers from the US and New Zealand, who spent two weeks exploring the area, have just returned to shore.
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