New-Zealand discovers new life-forms,
US Marines set to extinct Bengal Tiger
Scientists on the first deep-sea investigation of underwater volcanoes in New Zealand believe they have discovered many new types of creatures previously unknown to humankind. American Marines in Baghdad on the contrary, seem to set their own agenda.
The Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd (GNS) exploration of the deep sea floor was the first in a manned submersible in New Zealand, and investigated the Brothers volcano, 400km northeast of White Island and 1800m below the sea. "We saw scores of chimneys, some six meters tall, each containing thousands of tonnes of metal," said GNS project leader Dr Cornel de Ronde.
At one of the sites, 300 degrees fluids were pumping out of chimneys forming dense plumes of black smoke. Biological samples taken included shrimp, scale worms, crabs, eel-fish, limpets, and tube worms -- the first time the species had been recorded in New Zealand territorial waters.
The scientists believe that up to 30 per cent of the creatures they collected might never have been investigated before. Among the creatures recovered using the submersible's robotic arms were "colonies of heat-loving micro-organisms that may have potential future applications in pharmaceuticals, in bioremediation of contaminated sites, and in bio-mining" ,GNS said in a statement.
Whilst New-Zealand are discovering, US Marines are on course to extinct a very rare species. US Marines killed one more Iraqi yesterday. The "insurgent" in this case was a defenseless Bengal Tiger, locked up in its cage at Baghdad Zoo, shot dead by a drunken American soldier.
Reportedly, one of the group entered the tiger's cage and started teasing it, whereby the animal attacked him, injuring his hand and arm. One of the other soldiers opened fire on the animal, killing it.
The Bengal Tiger is an endangered species, numbering between 3.000 and 4.500 in the wild.
US Marines set to extinct Bengal Tiger
Scientists on the first deep-sea investigation of underwater volcanoes in New Zealand believe they have discovered many new types of creatures previously unknown to humankind. American Marines in Baghdad on the contrary, seem to set their own agenda.
The Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd (GNS) exploration of the deep sea floor was the first in a manned submersible in New Zealand, and investigated the Brothers volcano, 400km northeast of White Island and 1800m below the sea. "We saw scores of chimneys, some six meters tall, each containing thousands of tonnes of metal," said GNS project leader Dr Cornel de Ronde.
At one of the sites, 300 degrees fluids were pumping out of chimneys forming dense plumes of black smoke. Biological samples taken included shrimp, scale worms, crabs, eel-fish, limpets, and tube worms -- the first time the species had been recorded in New Zealand territorial waters.
The scientists believe that up to 30 per cent of the creatures they collected might never have been investigated before. Among the creatures recovered using the submersible's robotic arms were "colonies of heat-loving micro-organisms that may have potential future applications in pharmaceuticals, in bioremediation of contaminated sites, and in bio-mining" ,GNS said in a statement.
Whilst New-Zealand are discovering, US Marines are on course to extinct a very rare species. US Marines killed one more Iraqi yesterday. The "insurgent" in this case was a defenseless Bengal Tiger, locked up in its cage at Baghdad Zoo, shot dead by a drunken American soldier.
Reportedly, one of the group entered the tiger's cage and started teasing it, whereby the animal attacked him, injuring his hand and arm. One of the other soldiers opened fire on the animal, killing it.
The Bengal Tiger is an endangered species, numbering between 3.000 and 4.500 in the wild.
