Walk the dinosaur

Walk, don't run..........

"Sharks have been around for a long time, emerging over 400 million years ago. New research shows that tropical ‘walking sharks’ appeared just 9 million years ago, making them the most recently evolved shark on the planet."

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“We found the sharks, which use their fins to ‘walk’ around shallow reefs, only split off evolutionarily from their nearest common ancestor about 9 million years ago, and have been actively [spreading] into a complex of at least nine walking sharks ever since,”

She blinded me with science

Some more deep mysteries unlocked by science?

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"The giant squid (Architeuthis dux; Steenstrup, 1857) is an enigmatic giant mollusc with a circumglobal distribution in the deep ocean, except in the high Arctic and Antarctic waters. The elusiveness of the species makes it difficult to study. Thus, having a genome assembled for this deep-sea–dwelling species will allow several pending evolutionary questions to be unlocked."

 

Space Oddity

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One of the most bizarre sea creatures known to science comes in many different forms: the Siphonophore, of which there are 188 recorded species. ROV expeditions has given the scientific community and all-new look at the strange, somewhat creepy superorganisms which continue to capture people's imaginations.