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Showing posts with label Chili. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chili. Show all posts

6/7/24

FLYING SPAGETTI MONSTER AND FIFTY - OR WAS THAT ONE HUNDRED? - OTHER NEWLY DISCOVERED SPECIES

DAILY MAIL : 50 NEW SPECIES OFF COAST OF CHILI  some good videos of the newly discovered deep see creatures here!  Article by William Hunter

Excerpt: Along this 1,800-mile (2,900km) ocean mountain range the researchers observed 160 species - almost a third of which were new to science. 

Dr Javier Sellanes of the Universidad Católica del Norte, said: 'The astonishing habitats and animal communities that we have unveiled during these two expeditions constitute a dramatic example of how little we know about this remote area.'

3/3/14

WHALE GRAVEYARD IN THE CHILIAN DESERT MYSTERY SOLVED

MYSTERY BEHIND WHALE GRAVEYARD IN DESERT  full article link:

"Over 5 million years ago, a mass stranding of whales created what is now a whale graveyard in modern day Chile....
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THEY USED THE SMITHSONIANS new 3D Modeling tools...