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| Monsters of the Sea Floor |
 Spiders the size of dinner plates and jellyfish with tentacles that stretch half the length of a bus lurk more than a mile beneath Antarctic waters in a dark world of coral gardens and thick sea grasses. Creatures never seen before - giant prawns, massive crabs and huge worms - inhabit this world and have only been seen by human eyes for the first time last month.
Using three ships to trawl far below the waters in a 30,000 square mile area off of the east side of Antarctica, a scientific team has brought to the surface all manner of new species.
"With us we had some of the world's experts on Antarctic fish and they were completely, completely flabbergasted at the sight of some of the fish that came on board," Dr. Riddle, one of the scientists, told the Daily Mail. "They were unable to name them.
"The fish had fins in various places. They had funny, dangly bits around their mouths.
"Many of them had very large eyes, although what they are going to use them for where this is no light I couldn't tell you. But they are very strange looking fish."
The specimens brought up by the research ship Aurora Australis will now be sent to museums and universities around the world to be studied. Tissue samples and DNA will be tested to see if what was found were truly many new species.
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