Giant Seaweed Emerging

                                    Giant Seaweed Emerging 

Dr Abe V Rotor

Giant Seaweed  in acrylic by A V Rotor

Deep in the sea, creatures unknown emerge,

 algae enormously large, larger than their kin,

reach out for the sun, evolving in the process

from variants-to-species heretofore unseen.  

Among the giant seaweeds are kelp* in cold seas, and Sargassum in the tropics.  We do not know how many evolving variants and types are there, and to what extent have they reached the species level of classification.  It is a good study for marine biologists, especially on the field of global warming, its effect on marine environment. 

*Kelps are large brown algae seaweeds that make up the order Laminariales. There are about 30 different genera. Despite its appearance, kelp is not a plant - it is a heterokont, a completely unrelated group of organisms. Sargassum is a genus of brown macroalgae in the order Fucales. Numerous species are distributed throughout the temperate and tropical oceans of the world, where they generally inhabit shallow water and coral reefs, and the genus is widely known for its planktonic species. (Wikipedia)