Strange Creatures Deep in the Sea

The August 16, 2004 issue of U.S. News & World Report was a Special Report issue (Volume 137-Number 5). In the lead article ( on page 46) "The Blue Planet" we read of some of the strange creatures deep in the bowels of our oceans.

These give great testimony to the creativity of our Lord and Creator, though the magazine gave the honor to evolution.

One such creature was a six-foot tube worm. This worm lived a mile and a half deep in the ocean along the hydrothermal vents sulfurous heat.

They show a picture of a facinating glowing jellyfish that looks like something out of a science fiction movie.

"Yet for all the mysteries that await, human eyes and scientific probes have seen a scant 5 percent of the vast underwater world, leaving oceanographers and biologists to grumble that we know more about the surface of Mars and the dark side of the moon than we do about our own oceans."

It is estimated that in the ocean their is about 5000 different fish and "hundreds of thousands of other organisms still unknown to science."

They also talk about underwater prairies. "At an average of 2.5 miles, this underwater desert is far removed from the life-sustaining sunlight of the surface and without the chemical energy of methane seeps or hydrothermal vents life here trickles, rather than teems."

Researchers have discovered two new species of marine worms that "live 2 miles below the surface, just off the central California coast." Researchers found a dead whale carcass that had made it's way deep below the surface. "The carcass was coated with a wriggling layer of reddish worms, up to several inches long."

Characteristics of the female worms includes "branching, greenish system of rootlike tendrils" that were anchored into the whalebone. on the other side of this branching system was "a large egg sac." We are told that there are no eyes, mouths nor stomachs.

The male worms were described only as "nothing but microscopic threads, scooped by the dozen into the females' egg sacs to live a life of fertilization."

As research continues it will be a grand thing to keep praising our God and Creator as we see the beauty and uniqueness of His creation.


Steven Dickinson
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