Friday 16 July 2010

Do Not Mess With Fish 108,

and you thought fish were fun! well I would not want to meet this one on a dark nights dive trip, but he made professor Justin Marshall a happy fellow when he was seen on the latest deep dive 1,400m below sea level at Osprey Reef, 350km northeast of Cairns, the team, led by professor Justin Marshall, captured the sea creatures using special low-light sensitive, custom-designed remote controlled cameras, which sat on the sea floor, the scientists were from from the Queensland Brain Institute, Professor Marshall explained most of our knowledge on how nerve cells function and communicate was first pioneered through work on squid giant nerve cells, “We are now returning to these original model systems, both for their own intrinsic interest and also to better understand brain disorders which lead to conditions such as epilepsy,” he said, in September the scientists will travel to the Peruvian Trench off South America where they will film and capture deep-sea species 2,000m below sea level, one creature they hope to encounter is the Giant Squid, possessor of the world’s largest nerve cell, I hope it does not go wrong like the one in the 1954 film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea!

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