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PHOTOS: Giant, Unknown Animals Found off Antarctica
Giant sea spiders, spine-crushing daggertooth fish, and pink "sea pigs" are just a sampling of exotic creatures hauled up by scientists during a recent Antarctic expedition.
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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Deep-Sea Alien Abode DiscoveredSouthern Ocean, Off Antarctica - Carnivorous sponges, blind creepy-crawlies adorned with hairy antennae and ribbed worms are just some of the new characters recently found to inhabit the dark abysses of the Southern Ocean, an alien abode once thought devoid of such life. |
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Chain of Cascading Lakes Discovered Under AntarcticaAntarctica - A series of connected lakes has been discovered deep beneath glaciers in Antarctica and are speeding streams of polar ice into the sea, scientists announced yesterday. |
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Doomsday Vault Will Protect Millions Of SeedsOslo, Norway - An Arctic "doomsday vault" aimed at providing mankind with food in case of a global catastrophe will be designed to sustain the effects of climate change, the project's builders said Friday as they unveiled the architectural plans. |
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Antarctic hill surprises expertsNear Rutford Ice Stream, Antarctica - For the first time, a drumlin - a mound of sediment and rock - has been observed mid-formation, in Antarctica. |
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A Wanderlust Of Deep-Sea Fauna Under Antarctic Ice ShelfAntarctic Peninsula - Under the former Larsen ice shelf east of the Antarctic Peninsula, deep-sea sea cucumbers and stalked feather stars were ubiquitously found in shallow waters. |
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Explorers Set Mark in Antarctica JourneySydney, Australia - A team of British and Canadian explorers endured seven weeks of howling winds and subzero temperatures to become the first expedition to reach the geographic center of Antarctica without any mechanical assistance. |
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NASA Video Tours Earth’s ‘Frozen Assets’World - Now a white winter is available to all, thanks to an unprecedented digital video of Earth's coldest, iciest places just released by NASA. |
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Add Water, Life StirsBoulder, CO - Microbes freeze-dried in Antarctica for two decades sprang to life when scientists added water, revealing yet another extreme ecosystem that shows life's incredible resiliency. |
