Strange creature under the Bermuda Triangle

Under the eternal black water of the Bermuda Triangle, scientists have discovered a series of interesting, diverse and eye-catching sea creatures.

Some new marine animals can help clarify the status of the world's oceans. Catching tiny marine animals - zooplankton, zooplankton - at a depth of nearly 5,000 meters, and even reading their genetic code on the waves, the scientists are conducting a review. Marine life statistics have discovered many new details about the role of these fragile organisms in both climatic and food sources (from small fish to big whales).

Clio Pyramida, a swimming snail (Photo: CAND)

Of the thousands of species captured, about 500 have been listed, 220 have been analyzed for DNA on the Ronald H Brown of the US National Oceanic and Meteorological Agency.

Urgent research by scientists helps detect up to 20 new species that have never been recorded by science. Dr Peter Wiebe, the lead researcher of the research team (from the Woods Hole Marine Research Institute, USA), said: ' We charted the marine life like astronomers. Observe the stars in the sky. Through that chart, we can note what kind of changes - artificial or natural - are taking place in the ocean, the largest habitat on this planet . '

The 20-day trip, ending April 30, is part of an ambition to inventory all species of plankton, which is expected to double by 2010 from the current 7,000 species. The initiative to inventory the life of marine organisms will help clarify some important processes of global ecosystems, including the possibility of ocean acidification affecting marine life can take place.

The ocean absorbs a lot of carbon from the atmosphere whenever plankton moves up and down the water column. According to an incomplete estimate, 10,000 pounds of floating plants (phytoplankton) prey to 1,000 pounds of small plankton, then they continue to be bait for 100 pounds of large plankton, and these are prey for 10 pounds of small fish (like sardines or mullet) and then 1 pound of big fish.

Of the more than 1,000 single organisms identified at sea, according to Dr. Wiebe, a team of marine experts found there could be many new species in science. There are hundreds of species of shrimp-like animals but very small called copepods. The team also assessed 24 of the 48 species of pteropods, known as swimming snails.

This survey captures new insights into the diversity of colloidal plankton, which are usually non-existent when caught in fish nets. In the research team's repository there are more than 120 species of fish, including rarely seen anglerfish males, using jaws and teeth to bind together as parasitic species, and larger females. they are very much. There are also many strange fish such as the black arowana and a new species of fish that should be named " great swallowing fish".

Phuong Nguyen