Topic 37 of 58: New Species/Genera
Fri, Oct 13, 2000 (18:45) |
Alpha Wolf (wolf)
This topic is for those news articles and theory on the discovery of new species/genera of creatures that live on this earth.
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Topic 37 of 58 [SpringArk]: New Species/Genera
Response 1 of 3: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Fri, Oct 13, 2000 (18:47) * 22 lines
thanks Maggie!
Thursday October 12 4:41 PM ET
Scientists Find Completely New Animal in Greenland
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001012/sc/life_animal_dc_1.html
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (Reuters) - Danish scientists have found a completely new kind of animal down a cold well in Greenland and are keeping a colony of them in a fridge, the Arctic magazine Polarfronten reported on the Internet Thursday.
The 0.1-millimeter long freshwater organism does not fit into any one of the previously known animal families -- making it only the fourth such creature to be discovered on the planet in the past 100 years, Polarfronten said.
Studies of the animal named ``Limnognathia maerski'' show that it shares some characteristics with certain seawater life-forms.
Scientists from Copenhagen University and Aarhus University in Denmark have established a new phylum -- or family -- for the tiny animal, whose most remarkable feature is a set of very complicated jaws.
It has now got its own branch, Micrognathozoa, on the tree of the world's known animals, which are divided into slightly more than 30 families, Polarfronten said.
Limnognathia maerski, which reproduces through parthenogenesis, uses its jaws to scrape the bacteria and algae it feeds on from underwater moss growing in icy wells which freeze over during the long Arctic winter.
The animal was found in samples taken in 1994 from a well in Isunngua on Disco island in northwestern Greenland. A colony of the tiny creatures, all females, is in a refrigerator at Copenhagen University.
Greenland, the world's largest island, is part of Denmark.
Topic 37 of 58 [SpringArk]: New Species/Genera
Response 2 of 3: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Dec 27, 2001 (22:40) * 1 lines
This is going to be a slow topic unless we start posting from sites who claim to have found dinosaurs in South America or other beasts deep in the sea...
Topic 37 of 58 [SpringArk]: New Species/Genera
Response 3 of 3: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Fri, Dec 28, 2001 (21:42) * 1 lines
you're right. i've read that new frog species are being discovered everyday but at the same time, many species are dying off.
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