Giant, Unknown Animals Found off Antarctica

Giant, Unknown Animals Found off Antarctica
Giant, Unknown Animals Found off Antarctica
Giant, Unknown Animals Found off Antarctica
Giant, Unknown Animals Found off Antarctica
Giant, Unknown Animals Found off Antarctica
Giant, Unknown Animals Found off Antarctica
Giant, Unknown Animals Found off Antarctica
Giant, Unknown Animals Found off Antarctica
Giant, Unknown Animals Found off Antarctica
Giant, Unknown Animals Found off Antarctica
Giant, Unknown Animals Found off Antarctica
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High-powered cameras photographed this sea star or a starfish of the genus Labediaster (lower left) surrounded by brittle stars on a seamount 492 feet (150 meters) below the surface of Antarctica's Ross Sea.

The early-2008 marine survey is expected to yield eight new mollusk species, Stefano Schiaparelli of Italy's National Antarctic Museum in Genoa told the Associated Press.

This is a new brick in the wall of Antarctic knowledge, he said.

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—Photograph by DTIS camera/NZ IPY-CAML
 

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