{"id":20700,"date":"2019-09-03T08:16:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T08:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=20700"},"modified":"2019-09-03T08:16:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T08:16:31","slug":"antarctica-creature-amazes-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/antarctica-creature-amazes-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Antarctica creature amazes scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>According to a recent announcement, a strange Antarctica creature is the latest addition to the long list of species known to humans.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists on an exploration mission in Antarctica have reported the discovery of an impressive new species, which has never before been known to humans. <\/span><b>The Antarctica creature was discovered while scientists were filming a documentary following their Expedition Antarctica mission.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The curious animal is part of the snailfish family. According to the scientist part of the exploration mission, there are hundreds of different species of snailfish.<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/natgeotv.com\/int\/expedition-antarctica\/biographies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Dr. Andrew Stewart<\/b><\/a><b>, the leader of the expedition, was the one who made the discovery, after a routine sweep of the bottom of the Antarctic sea.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> His amazement was beyond description when the nets were pulled aboard the ship, and the new kind of snailfish emerged from them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Antarctica creatures under threat<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>While the discovery made by Dr. Stewart is a fantastic feat for biologists all over the world, such Antarctica creatures are currently under serious threat.<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Unfortunately, <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/un-oceans-are-under-threat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>a recent UN report<\/b><\/a><b> stated that the world\u2019s oceans are in danger, as humans continue to pollute them, and the world is continuing to heat up. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The amount of pollution humans are producing is unmanageable, and marine species like the newly discovered Antarctica creature are suffering.<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Finding new species like the snailfish is always exciting news; however, if we don\u2019t start thinking about the environment, we will hear fewer announcements like this. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is no way to know how many species will remain undiscovered because they became extinct as a result of ocean pollution.<\/span><br \/>\n<b>One of Dr. Stewart\u2019s main goals with the Expedition Antarctica documentary is to appeal to people\u2019s consciousness and make them think more about the adverse effects our modern-day lifestyle has on nature.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent announcement, a strange Antarctica creature is the latest addition to the long list of species known to humans.\u00a0 Scientists on an exploration mission in Antarctica have reported the discovery of an impressive new species, which has never before been known to humans. The Antarctica creature was discovered while scientists were filming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}