While mankind is working hard at ruining the seas as they are above ground, some of mankind is working to try to preserve what is there.
New species are constantly being found.
Click for a site that addresses some of the more recent observations. It reads:
The chasms and trenches of the great oceans are mostly unexplored territory.
Research is only just beginning to uncover some of the secrets that lurk in their mysterious abyssal depths.
Disney made a documentary and the companion book,
OCEANS, came out in March of 2010.
Amazon carries the book though I have not yet read it.
While deep sea may resemble amniotic fluid and calmness to some, frighteningly it is nothing like it.
This snake-like deep sea creature is called Fimbriated Moray Eel, or scientifically it is named as Gymnothorax Fimbriatus. It is found lying under a coral reef ledge on a shore off the coast of Anilao in Philippines.
Read more about these here.
So much of our natural resource was lost before we knew any better, but now that we do, can we not try to preserve them for future researchers who can work to make our lives and health better by studying them?
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