The Creatures
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Origin | London |
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United Kingdom | |
Members | Siouxsie Sioux |
Budgie | |
Genres | Post-punk |
Exotica | |
Art Rock | |
Art Pop | |
Alternative Rock | |
Experimental Music | |
Avant-garde Music | |
Gothic Rock | |
Electronic Music | |
Record labels | Polydor Records |
Universal Music Group | |
Geffen Records | |
Instinct Records | |
PIAS Recordings | |
Associated acts | Siouxsie Sioux |
Budgie | |
Career start | London, United Kingdom |
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ID | 1086064 |
About The Creatures
The Creatures were an English band formed in 1981 by vocalist Siouxsie Sioux and drummer Budgie of the group Siouxsie and the Banshees. The Creatures released their first EP Wild Things in 1981. They recorded four studio albums: Feast in 1983, Boomerang in 1989, Anima Animus in 1999 and Hái! in 2003.
Seabed mining will stress jellyfish - scientists
... So far, there has been little research into how it would affect The Creatures that live their lives moving and floating through the water column, the vast area between the surface and the seabed...
Sustainable fishing: The tech making it cheaper and greener
... Often bycatch is thrown back into the sea, but The Creatures are usually dead or dying...
Pokémon Go creator John Hanke says it's not game over for the app
... The company hopes to launch an AI-powered feature next year that will allow The Creatures to be " situated in the environment and respond to things in the environment in a realistic way"...
Cleethorpes: Chris Packham praises girl, 3, for saving starfish
... Jessie and her mum Heather helped save about 200 of The Creatures by moving them into rock pools and deep puddles...
Boris Johnson given green light to build swimming pool
... Local councils are obligated to check developers have plans to mitigate any negative impact building work could have on The Creatures...
Crystal Palace Park dinosaurs turned into interactive 3D models
... The Creatures were created by artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and are thought to be the world s first attempt to model extinct animals at life-size, based on fossil remains as evidence...
Robots are trained to help revive coral reefs
... However, The Creatures are sensitive to heat and acidification so in recent years, as the oceans have warmed and, corals have become vulnerable to disease and death...
Loch Ness Monster: Hundreds to join huge search for Nessie
... In 2019, scientists said The Creatures behind repeated sightings of the fabled Loch Ness Monster may be giant eels...
Seabed mining will stress jellyfish - scientists
By Victoria GillScience correspondent, Bbc News
An experiment to test how seabed mining could affect deep Sea Life has revealed unexpected impacts on common jellyfish.
There is increasing interest in extracting precious minerals from what are called metallic " nodules" that naturally occur on the seabed.
But marine scientists are concerned about the harm that could be caused.
These researchers studied helmet jellyfish, using special tanks on a Research Vessel to simulate conditions created by mining activity.
They found that the gelatinous animals were " highly sensitive" to plumes of sediment - a condition created to mimic how mining would stir up seabed deposits.
The findings were published in the journal Nature Communications.
Deep-sea mining has been proposed - and opposed - for decades. Mining companies and other supporters say mineral deposits on the seabed can be collected in less environmentally damaging ways than mining on Land - and that it could help meet demand for materials for green technologies.
But many marine scientists point out that there will be consequences for Marine Life that we do Not Yet understand. Much of the Deep Ocean is unexplored, so seabed mining opponents also point out that mining activity could cause irreparable damage to ecosystems we do Not Yet understand.
So Far , there has been little research into how it would affect The Creatures that live their lives moving and floating through the water column, the vast area between The Surface and the seabed. One of The Lead researchers on this study, Dr Helena Hauss from the Norwegian Research Institute Norce told Bbc News that This Was the impetus behind the new experiment.
" The idea was to get hold of an organism that's globally distributed, and that would be exposed to these conditions in The Real world, " she explained.
Dark experimentsBecause the jellyfish The Team studied are so sensitive to light, The Scientists worked at night. They captured about 60 animals and put them in temperature-controlled tanks, in a dark lab aboard their research ship.
Marine scientist Vanessa Stenvers, from the in Kiel, Germany, explained that this simulated the debris that would be disturbed and released by underwater vehicles extracting minerals from The Sea floor. " These are rotating tanks, " She Said . " Essentially re-creating a situation where sediment is disturbed and doesn't Settle - it's circulating through the water. "
The Experiment , which was part of the European, revealed some unusual effects on the jellyfish: When their bodies became coated in sediment, they produced excessive amounts of a protective mucus. Doing that, The Scientists explained, is energetically expensive, so The Animals used energy they would otherwise be expending on feeding or movement.
Samples taken from The Animals also showed signs of what the researchers called " acute stress" including activation of genes that are associated with wound healing.
Fragile creaturesHelmet jellyfish live throughout The World 's Oceans - Down to depths of several thousand metres.
They have fragile, gelatinous bodies. " That's not true just for jellyfish, but for worms and molluscs - lots of animals that live in the water column, " explained Dr Stenvers.
" You can afford to be fragile, because you'll be safe in the in the mid water. "
These animals also live in a world of relatively transparent water. One of the dominant forms of communication in The Deep sea is bioluminescence, which, The Scientists point out, only works in clear water.
Deep-sea mining activity, Dr Stenvers explained, is likely to change the conditions that these animals have evolved in.
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com