Aquatic Life survives in impossible conditions

Discovery: Fish Live Beneath Antarctica

Scientists find translucent fish in a wedge of water hidden under 740 meters of ice, 850 kilometers from sunlight

By Douglas Fox

Stunned researchers in Antarctica have discovered fish and other aquatic animals living in perpetual darkness and cold, beneath a roof of ice 740 meters thick. The animals inhabit a wedge of seawater only 10 meters deep, sealed between the ice above and a barren, rocky seafloor below—a location so remote and hostile the many scientists expected to find nothing but scant microbial life.

Read rest see pics here :http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/discovery-fish-live-beneath-antarctica1/

So there may be life in other places yet undiscovered,places in which it is thought creatures such as cryptids couldn't exist .

Sea Monsters?

Rarely seen frilled shark known as the living fossil sighted in Australia

The frilled shark was caught on a fishing trawler in waters near Lakes Entrance in the Gippsland region in southeastern Australia

See photo read rest here :http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/11358818/Rarely-seen-frilled-shark-known-as-the-living-fossil-sighted-in-Australia.html

Mystery of the real-life sea serpent

A huge fish is still baffling scientists centuries after it began terrifying sailors. The enigmatic oarfish could be the truth behind ancient tales of sea serpents capable of sinking ships. Growing up to 36ft (11m) long and swimming like a snake at the ocean’s surface, oarfish match historic descriptions of frightening monsters from the deep. The giant fish is still capable of sending witnesses fleeing for their lives and sightings in shallow water or incidents of oarfish beaching themselves seem to be increasing.

Read rest here :http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150115-mystery-of-the-real-life-sea-serpent

new marine reptile identified

New species of marine reptile identified from Skye fossils

A new species of marine reptile that lived about 170 million years ago has been identified from fossils found on the Isle of Skye. Measuring 14ft (4.2m) from snout to tail, it hunted fish and other reptiles in warm shallow seas around Scotland during the Jurassic Period. Palaeontologists said they had given it a Gaelic name, Dearcmhara, to reflect its connection with the Hebrides. Work to identify it was led by the University of Edinburgh and museums. A team of palaeontologists studied fossil fragments of skulls, teeth, vertebrae and an upper arm bone unearthed on Skye over the past 50 years. 

Read rest here : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-30741402

deepest fish and atlantis in the news.

Happy New Year everyone. Let’s hope 2015 brings new discoveries.

Deepest Fish Features Angel Wings, Tentacles and Amazing Ability to Perform Under Pressure

By Jennifer Frazer | January 8, 2015

Extract:

“Discovered at 26,872 feet, the fish was still found within the zone calculated by project scientist Paul Yancey to be the hypothetical limit. This discovery was widely covered in the press in mid-December, but the footage of the new depth title-holder that often accompanied these stories wasn’t very good. Below is a much better video. It’s a curious fish that seems to somehow combine the aesthetics of a tissue paper angel, Flounder from Disney’s The Little Mermaid, and Dread Cthulhu.”

See video here :http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/2015/01/08/deepest-fish-features-angel-wings-tentacles-and-amazing-ability-to-perform-under-pressure/

Atlantis' Legendary Metal Found in Shipwreck

Jan 6, 2015 06:00 PM ET // by Rossella Lorenzi

Gleaming cast metal called orichalcum, which was said by Ancient Greeks to be found in Atlantis, has been recovered from a ship that sunk 2,600 years ago off the coast of Sicily.

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