Never Before Seen Sea Creatures Found In Ocean Near Antarcti

DoctorE · #1 by **DoctorE** » Jan 05, 2012 9:31 am

Spearthrower · #2 by **Spearthrower** » Jan 07, 2012 2:14 pm

This is another area of study I would love to pursue. I've been fascinated by hydrothermal vents since I was a kid.

Rumraket · #3 by **Rumraket** » Jan 07, 2012 2:29 pm

So have I, the deep ocean is incredible. Like an alien world.

Animavore · #4 by **Animavore** » Jan 07, 2012 2:57 pm

My favourite Blue Planet episode was the deep sea one. I always felt it was a mistake for the BBC to show that episode first in the series. After that it was - whales, dolphins, seals, penguins, sharks; seen 'em.

Spearthrower · #5 by **Spearthrower** » Jan 07, 2012 3:00 pm

Animavore wrote:My favourite Blue Planet episode was the deep sea one. I always felt it was a mistake for the BBC to show that episode first in the series. After that it was - whales, dolphins, seals, penguins, sharks; seen 'em.

I think they were excited to have the first footage of loads of these creatures. Pretty good way of grabbing people's interest.

I am still trawling through the complete Attenborough collection I was given Christmas 2010 - there's SO much viewing time here, I think it will last me most of this year too! :grin:

Animavore · #6 by **Animavore** » Jan 07, 2012 3:03 pm

My friend got that too, same year. We always watch it when I'm over. I don't even think we've seen half.

Spearthrower · #7 by **Spearthrower** » Jan 07, 2012 4:19 pm

Animavore wrote:My friend got that too, same year. We always watch it when I'm over. I don't even think we've seen half.

The great thing about is that my gf can happily watch it without needing to understand the English. It's tapped into an undiscovered interest in the natural world for her!

SafeAsMilk · #8 by **SafeAsMilk** » Jan 07, 2012 5:12 pm

What is this complete Attleboro collection of which you speak? :awesome:

Spearthrower · #9 by **Spearthrower** » Jan 07, 2012 6:31 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_Collection

The Life Collection is a 24-disc DVD box set of eight titles from David Attenborough's 'Life' series of BBC natural history programmes.

Life on Earth (1979)
The Living Planet (1984)
The Trials of Life (1990)
Life in the Freezer (1993)
The Private Life of Plants (1995)
The Life of Birds (1998)
The Life of Mammals (2002)
Life in the Undergrowth (2005)

Paul G · **#10** by **Paul G** » Jan 07, 2012 6:35 pm

No life in cold blood?

Spearthrower · **#11** by **Spearthrower** » Jan 07, 2012 6:51 pm

Paul G wrote:No life in cold blood?

That was released years after the Life Collection, so no!

In fact, it's the only one of all his programmes I don't have!

aban57 · **#12** by **aban57** » Jan 11, 2012 9:57 am

Same thing, but in the Caribbean sea. They found a 4cm shrimp, living in waters above 400 degrees

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v3 ... s1636.html