Antarctic Sea Cucumbers Advance on Manhattan
CNN recently reported on the discovery of previously unknown species that were living underneath Antarctic ice shelves – but what aren’t they telling us about this discovery?
What the scientists found would shock anybody – if only they had the full story. In the entire CNN story, only two sentences mentioned the scientists’ discoveries about sea cucumbers. Why?
Here’s what CNN decided to include: “groups of sea cucumbers were observed moving together, all in one direction.”
What CNN’s editors decided not to tell you is where those groups of sea cucumbers were going. All those groups of sea cucumbers, all moving in a single direction, were on a path that leads, eventually, straight to Manhattan!
Anyone who knows anything about marine biology knows that sea cucumbers are scavengers. Call me excessively curious, but when huge hordes of ocean-going scavengers start heading toward the most important city in the United States, all at once, I’ve got to wonder why. Those sea cucumbers have obviously got some pretty clear ideas about what’s going to happen to New York City in the near future, and have decided, with their cold little invertebrate minds, that there will soon be a lot of food for them in gotham waters.
What do those sea cucumbers know that we don’t know, and why aren’t we being told about it?
Date: March 5, 2007
Categories: environment, science
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