OCEAN DISCOVERIES.
The latest discoveries in regard to tin: ocean were recently summed up by Sir John Murray. A winter of perpetual night is said to hold sway in the depths of the sea, the darkness andlow ! temperature being due to the complete absorption of the rays of the sun by the superficial layers of water. Plant life is absent, but animal life abundant. The majority of the deep-sea animals live by eating mud and'by catching the minute particles of organic matter which descend from above. Compared with their allies in shallower waters, many of these mudeating animals are of gigantic size, but rapacious enemies armed with peculiar prehensile organs prey upon them. Sonic deep-sea fishes are blind, while others have very large eyes. Phosphorescent light plays on importlan t role in the great deeps. Sometimes the animals are furnished with ; phosphorescent organs which recall I the use of bull's-eye lanterns.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 65, 17 March 1900, Page 2 (Supplement)
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