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Urban explorer

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A fascinating photograph of Hobart’s little-known ‘underworld’. See it full size here.

June 3, 2008   No Comments

New ’sea pig’ found off Antarctica

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This sea cucumber — held by Sadie Mills of New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research — is known as a sea pig.

Mills and colleagues from around the world, including Tasmania, collected the organism, among more than 30,000 animals, during a marine census of southern Antarctica earlier this year.

Sea cucumbers are part of a group of marine animals that inhabit the seafloor, including sea squirts, sea stars (starfish), sea slugs, corals, clams, sponges, and urchins.

April 2, 2008   No Comments