Sarah: Strange Sea Creatures

first let me applogize for this really long pic filled post but my sister forwarded these to me and i wanted to share.

The tsunami or "harbor wave" that was generated by the December 26th earthquake in the Indian Ocean moved outward from the quake's epicenter at roughly 500 miles per hour. Only when the waves left the deep water and started climbing up the land shelf did the giant wave (actually a series of five waves coming one after another) slow down. In doing so, the waves scoured the entire seabed beneath them, and brought up marine creatures from well over a mile deep, leaving them behind as the waves receeded. Scientists know more about the surface of the moon than they do about life at these depths. The 24 pictures, photographed at seaside in Phuket, Thailand, show just some of the strange and wondrous undersea life forms (previously unknown) that were kept and preserved after the tsunami left.

basketwork & eel

black dragonfish

blind lobster

blob fish

carrier shell

chimaera fish

fangtooth

firefly squid

gunard

hatchetfish

lizard fish

oreo dory

prickly shark

sea spider

shovel nosed lobster

stargazer

stone crab

swimmer crab

tongue sole

umbrella mouth gulper eel

viperfish

coffinfish

chimaera pup

crab

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