On board of German research vessel RV Sonne Ulrich Mattheus from Tuebingen university is documenting small deep sea organisms.

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Scientists are trawling from the deep sea in 500 to 1000 meters in the South Atlantic Ocean a tremendous variety of different organisms. In the laboratories of German research vessel RV Sonne Ulrich Mattheus from Tuebingen university in Germany is documenting small organisms in the microscope with his camera. Wissenschaftler holen aus der ewigen Dunkelheit der Wassertiefen zwischen 500 bis 1000 Meter eine erstaunliche Vielfalt von Tiefsee-Organismen aus dem Süd-Atlantik. In den Labors des deutschen Forschungsschiffs Sonne dokumentiert Ulrich Mattheus von der Universität Tübingen einen dieser Funde unter dem Mikroskop mit seiner Kamera.

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Size: 6000px × 4000px
Location: Walvis Ridge, around Tropic of Capricorn, 500 km off the coast of Namibia in the Atlantic Ocean
Photo credit: © Roland Knauer / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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