On board of German research vessel RV Sonne Ulrich Mattheus from Tuebingen University is dissecting a deep sea organism.

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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 dissecting on of this animals using a microscope. 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 präpariert Ulrich Mattheus von der Universität Tübingen einen dieser Funde unter dem Mikroskop.

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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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Keywords: deep, dissecting, dissection, forschung, forschungsschiff, laboratory, mattheus, microscope, mikroskop, organisms., research, schiff, science, scientific, sea, sezieren, sonne, tiefsee, trawling, ulrich, vessel