“We are excited about how this combination of new imaging sensors will allow us to get a larger and much clearer picture of how ocean life helps to store carbon. “The microscopic algae in the ocean are responsible for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as much as the forests on land are,” said Voyage Chief Scientist, Professor Philip Boyd, from AAPP and the University of Tasmania’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies.
Even though phytoplankton are too small to be seen with the naked eye, scientists estimate that there are a staggering 45 billion tonnes of new phytoplankton each year, which is partly why they are able to capture such enormous amounts of carbon. They eventually become sequestered in the ocean floor’s sediment, where they can remain for millions of years. The carbon-rich carcasses that slowly drift to the bottom of the ocean are referred to as marine snow. When these organisms die they slowly sink to the depths of the sea, which the researchers from AAAP compare to “a scene from a snow globe.” Carbon is needed by these organisms to sustain life and remains in their bodies even after their death. 81 Provided by Futurism A dazzling array of fabulously strange deep sea creatures were just discovered off of Australia's Western Coast some new, some just very rare. Billions and billions of marine organisms, such as phytoplankton, live at and near the ocean’s surface and capture carbon from the atmosphere through photosynthesis.
The researchers are sailing on CSIRO’s RV Investigator and are using satellites, automated ocean gliders, and deep-diving robots to collect information on specific carbon-rich particles. To learn more about how marine life removes carbon from the atmosphere and what role this has in climate change, researchers from the Australian Antarctic Program Partnership (AAAP) have deployed a fleet of “new-generation, deep-diving ocean robots" to parts of the Southern Ocean near Australia. Oceans cover more than 70 per cent of Earth’s surface and capture roughly 25 per cent of all carbon emissions, which is why protecting marine ecosystems is a critical action that will lower the risks from warming atmospheric temperatures. Vladimir Putin shook hands with members of the crowd, some of whom took pictures with him. He describes Ophiojura as "a totally unique and previously undescribed type of animal.Even though the depths of the deep sea are thousands of kilometres away from the atmosphere, the movements and functions of this underwater realm drastically influence the climate. The Russian president has been pictured being greeted by excited crowds in the southern city of Derbent. "A microscopic scan revealed bristling rows of sharp teeth lining every jaw, which I reckon are used to snare and shred its prey," O'Hara explains in a blog post for The Conversation, a nonprofit media network that publishes news stories on new academic breakthroughs. Epizoanthus martinsae lives on black corals at depths of almost 400m By Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News Almost five years of studying the deep Atlantic in unprecedented detail has. It had two atypical features, even in the realm of brittle stars: eight arms (most have five) and eight nasty, razor-sharp sets of teeth. In 2015, his taxonomic specialty in Ophiurodea (brittle stars) proved incredibly useful: while sorting through a bucket of brittle stars, the 2011 Ophiojura specimen caught his eye.
🌊 Love the mysteries of the sea? Explore the depths below with us.Īt the helm of those efforts is Tim O'Hara, senior curator of marine invertebrates at Museums Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. Last week, they published their findings in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. But it took 10 years for scientists to analyze the peculiar echinoderm's DNA. Looking at Ophiojura, a bizarre deep-sea creature with a gnarly set of saw-like teeth, you'd think Halloween came early this year.īy chance, researchers happened upon this ancient genus of brittle star-a distant relative of the starfish-during a 2011 trawling expedition on the Banc Durand seamount off the coast of New Caledonia in the Pacific. The odd echinoderm is believed to be the last known survivor of its lineage, and features several sets of sharp teeth and eight arms.Earlier this month, a team of researchers in Australia finished analyzing the creature and published their findings in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.Scientists from the French Natural History Museum collected an ancient specimen of brittle star ( Ophiojura) in 2011.
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