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RESEARCHERS HAVE OBSERVED a new record for the world’s deepest living fish, found at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest site on earth.
The new species (bottom right in compilation below) was recorded at a depth of 8,145 metres, breaking the previous depth record set in 2008 by nearly 500 metres, researchers said in a statement.
“This really deep fish did not look like anything we had seen before, nor does it look like anything we know of,” Alan Jamieson from the University of Aberdeen said.
“It is unbelievably fragile, with large wing-like fins and a head resembling a cartoon dog.”
The Mariana Trench sits nearly 11,000 meters (7 miles) below sea level in the Pacific Ocean, where very few large animals are found. It’s too cold and dark for most. However, new robotic technology is allowing researchers to explore the relatively barren environment, long thought too harsh for any life to exist at all.
The footage was captured by a team of Scottish scientists from the University of Aberdeen during their 30-day expedition using the Hadal-Lander ocean vehicle.
Along with the new species of snailfish, researchers filmed several other rarely-seen sea creatures. That includes supergiant amphipods, crustaceans that can measure a foot or more in length and are often referred to as the “insects of the sea.”
The video footage below shows sea creatures at different depths. Larger animals, such as rat-tails and cusk eels live in shallower depths of 5,000-6,500 metres (16,404-21,325 feet). Supergiant amphipods live at mid-depths of 6,500-8,000 metres (21,325-26,246 feet). The newly-found, fragile snailfish lives at depths greater than 8,000 metres. It’s shown in the video around the 1:40-minute mark, swimming in from the bottom-left corner.
In 2012, director James Cameron became the first person to visit the bottom of the trench in more than 50 years. A year later, scientiststs published research indicating that the trench is thriving with microbes that are able to survive on the remains of dead animals, algae, and other microbes that float down the trench slopes.
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Unnecessary hysterics, we all know everything is done on pen and paper in this country, that’s why we have schoolteachers as ministers, won’t affect us for another 50years probably
@Stevie Doran: how about the new PPS card that’s not mandatory but obligatory even to make a tax query? All of the information will be kept in America because there’s less protection there? Sounds legit!
@Stevie Doran: I thought we had politicians as ministers. I worked in a bar once when I was in college and have never do so since, am I still a barman?
@Stevie Doran: at least if someone gets the details for €40 you’d know what it says! Be more efficient than the HSE anyway! Plus as Stevie said f all is digital here so we’ll be grand
@Deborah Behan: that’s a lie Deborah. The data is not being stored in the US.
@Deborah Behan: “All of the information will be kept in America”
That’s about the tenth time you have written that, and it has been false every time. How many times do you need to be told?
All your Twitter data is stored in America and you don’t seem to have a problem with that.
@Stevie Doran: The Revenue have ROS, The Gards have PULSE, Social Welfare and Healthcare are similarly digitised. A flippant facetious attitude isn’t going to protect us from cyber attacks.
@Patrick Kearns: Such ignorance on how data is stored and accessed. Take Pulse for example the minute records are being looked up had a high rate the connection is terminated and locked. Not just speed but volume. That is after getting through the security measures which you do either.
The amount of monitoring on traffic on such services is huge. Imagine you have a private road and suddenly you see 1000 trucks on it and you can simply block the road, that is what you do. Or you see a car using it way more than anybody else you stop the car and then find out what they are at.
@Gary: Dail bar?
The one in the Dáil? ;-)
@Deborah Behan: Re your last point: that can’t be done under the new European data protection legislation GDPR, unless they storage company agree to abide by European regulations. So this will either be illegal or the storage company have agree to adhere to forthcoming EU rules. I guess it is the latter.
Roll out the usual suspects from State and semi State bodies assuring us that this simply could not happen in Ireland because we are smarter than smart in protecting our ‘systems’.
@John Campbell: nope calling bull, no government takes lightly the threat of cybercrime anywhere. All they or anyone else can do is try to react quickly to any new threat when it occurs.
Even countries with far far greater resources than Ireland cannot mitigate the risk. You’re barking up the wrong tree if you’re blaming governments for cybercrime.
Cybersecurity/Cybercrime is a self fulfilling prophecy. It’s a small community driving wealth on both sides of the equation…..
Why are medical records so valuable?
@Christy McCarthy: They like to know which viruses your infected with, so they can find a backdoor.
Morning all. Good weekend?
Im in bits..thats for free
It is no cyber-criminals or darkweb looking for our personal data. It is multibillion international companies – insurance brokers, banks or shops who pay for that. Hackers are only middlemen. Why not to point real criminals here ??
Start using blockchain tech
40 euros eh? Hmm new dryer, would i get 10 takers. Who do I talk to?
The password is mam and dads house name or 1956
That all 40 euro? tight B#stards on the dark web
American Social security are not exactly difficult to get.
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