Antarctic islands surpass Galapagos for biodiversity

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[JoeProBono]

A group of isolated Antarctic islands have proved to be unexpectedly rich in life. The first comprehensive biodiversity survey of the South Orkney Islands, near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, has revealed that they are home to more species of sea and land animals than the Galapagos.Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Hamburg, Germany, carried out the survey using a combination of trawl nets, sampling as deep as 1500m, and scuba divers. The team found over 1200 species, a third of which were not thought to live in the region. They also identified five new species.

[JoeProBono]

Emperor penguins like these are the tallest and heaviest penguins alive today

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[OneWingedShark]

Emperor penguins like these are the tallest and heaviest penguins alive today...

But once, long ago, massive zombie-dinosaur-penguins ruled the frigid seas!

[JoeProBono]

South Orkney Islands

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[JoeProBono]

Bad Date!

[JRios1968]

Sadly so

[SunkenCiv]

Curing Diversity
City Journal | Autumn 2008 | Peter W Huber
Posted on 12/02/2008 4:24:46 PM PST by Lorianne
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2141787/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Flying penguins found by BBC programme
Daily Telegraph (UK) | 01/04/2008 | Neil Midgley
Posted on 03/31/2008 6:14:54 PM PDT by relictele
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1994795/posts

Flying Penguins Found By BBC Programme (Amazing Photos)
The Telegraph (UK) | 4-1-2008 | Neil Midgley
Posted on 03/31/2008 6:36:35 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994810/posts

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[JoeProBono]

Thanks for the lift

[JoeProBono]

Thanks for the lift

[SunkenCiv]

Igloo what I can.

[Fred Nerks]

and once upon a time...not all that long ago, the aboriginal people in Arhnem Land - that's in the Far North of Australia - painted images of a plesiosaur. Sometimes referred to as 'Rainbow Serpent' -

A juvenile plesiosaur was discovered in Antarctica:

Reconstruction of a plesiosaur - a reptile, not a bird or mammal...lived on the Antarctic continent at a time when Australian Natives were drawing pictures on rocks...

[JoeProBono]

Plesiosaurs have been encountered in turn-of-the-century London

[Fred Nerks]

one day I’ll get you for that...

[LucyT]

Thanks, Fred Nerks. One of these days I’m going to ask SunkenCiv to add me to his GGG ping list again. Soon, I hope. This is so much more interesting than u know what. If we don’t persevere with u know what, then we may not have GGG.

[Fred Nerks]

...If we don’t persevere with u know what, then we may not have GGG.

GGG is all we might have.

[LucyT]

GGG is all we might have.

Good point.