Holy closed system, Batman!
Jun. 1st, 2006 04:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gizaFrom http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5036618.stm:
The story goes on to mention that some of the species have lost their eyes due to living in total darkness over the years. Sounds like a byproduct of evolving to meet changing environmental conditions to me. I wonder what the creationists would have to say about that? :-P
Eight previously unknown invertebrate creatures have been discovered in an underwater cave in central Israel.
The largest is a white shrimp-like crustacean. Another resembles a species of scorpion and is blind.
The cave was uncovered during drilling at a quarry close to Tel Aviv.
Scientists say it is a unique ecosystem that has been sealed off from the world for five million years and could contain other ancient lifeforms.
"The uniqueness is of the environmental conditions and of the palaeohistory," said Dr Hanan Dimantman, a biologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
"The result of this is that the ecosystem is unique. We are sure that the eight species that were found are only the beginning of the story of this ecosystem."
The story goes on to mention that some of the species have lost their eyes due to living in total darkness over the years. Sounds like a byproduct of evolving to meet changing environmental conditions to me. I wonder what the creationists would have to say about that? :-P