What Does 100,000-Year-Old Seagrass Look LIke?

This archaic seagrass' or underwater meadows are called Posidonja oceanica and live in the Mediterranean. What is their secret to a long-life? According to Professor Carlos Duarte, the director of the Oceans Institute, Withthrop, " Clonal organisms have an extraordinary capacity to transmit only highly competent genomes through generation, with potentially no end" although now climate change is threatening their being. Duarte adds " Indeed, the ancient meadows [...] are declining at a rate several hundred-fold faster than the rate over which they spread when forming, a situation that this slow growing, long lived species is capable of recovering from." This will have consequences to all of earth as these meadows are essential to coastal ecosystems. Replanting these meadows has proved unsuccessful thus so far,so they face a struggle we will share with them in the decades to come. 

For those who want to know more about seagrass here is a variety of helpful links:

http://teamseagrass.blogspot.com

http://www.seagrasswatch.org/Singapore.html

http://thesilvercane.blogspot.com

http://myfwc.com/research/habitat/seagrasses/information/learn/

http://pigcos.soest.hawaii.edu/piccp/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=61&Itemid=66

Mouthwatering Underwater Sculptures

Gazin upon these, a fictional pompeii, constructed underwater with figures of modern pathos and opsis, a society where we observe a chubby man in front of a television with a burger and chips. Art can be saturated with interpretative materials and guidelines before one can actually see the art with the purity of their own essences. So we encourage you, just dive into this sea of sculptures,and afterwords we will provide a link for those who want to know more about these beautiful sculptures. Now feast your eyes on this:)

More information at http://www.underwatersculpture.com/

Bioluminescence: Aliens in the ocean

When the first bioluminescent creatures were discovered most researchers believed that the belonged to a very isolated sub-population of marine life. However, as more and more deep-sea submersibles explore the darkened depths of the ocean more and more glow in the dark fish are appearing. There are plankton, squid, fish, shrimp, jelly-fish and many other marine-organisms that have this amazing ability to produce light. You might wonder why do you need to produce light if you are a fish at the bottom of the ocean? Well some fish emit the light as part of a mating display, others like the shrimp have the capacity to emit a jet of a bioluminescent chemical that can temporarily blind a predator and give the shrimp a chance to escape. And as Edith Widder demonstrates in the Ted Talk below, some jellyfish actually use different pulses of light to communicate. To learn more watch the video below and be amazed by these alien like creatures that live at the bottom of the ocean,