Joel Kontinen
“Stunningly beautiful” might not sound very scientific but it is an authentic and accurate description of one of the deep-sea creatures NOAA’s recent expeditions have filmed.
We might think that the watery world several kilometres below the surface would be dull and grey, but it is not.
It appears to be a big Darwinian dilemma.
The creatures, including octopus, jellyfish, sea butterflies and others, are astoundingly beautiful.
Louis Armstrong recorded the song What a Wonderful World in 1967, and it now seems that the world is even more wonderful than we could have imagined.
As the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes puts it, “He has made everything beautiful in its time” (3:11, NIV).
Source:
NOAA Okeanos Explorer. 2017. Daily Updates.
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