Sunday, May 16, 2010

Oil spill imperils an unseen world at the bottom of the gulf
By Joel Achenbach
Washington Post
(See graphic below)

In total darkness at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico lives a creature with many scuttling legs and two wiggling antennae that jut from a pinched, space-alien face. It is the isopod, Bathynomus giganteus, a scavenger of dead and rotten flesh on the mud floor of the gulf.

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