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In addition to our most popular news stories of 2010, some of our readers' favorite Wired Science posts this year were image galleries.
Earth from space, the world's oldest trees, and painfully cute baby animals were among the year's most popular image collections.
July 6 More than 300 hours of diving along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge contributed 10 possible new species to the Census of Marine Life. The animals are pretty weird, but also beautiful such as the scale worm pictured above. Three of the species, which look like colorful wavy worms, belong to a group of creatures called Enteropneust, believed to be the evolutionary link between backbone and invertebrate animals. Previously only a few specimens of the group, from the Pacific Ocean, were known to science. See the full gallery. Image: David Shale
- Crazy-Looking New Deep-Sea Creatures
July 6 More than 300 hours of diving along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge contributed 10 possible new species to the Census of Marine Life. The animals are pretty weird, but also beautiful such as the scale worm pictured above. Three of the species, which look like colorful wavy worms, belong to a group of creatures called Enteropneust, believed to be the evolutionary link between backbone and invertebrate animals. Previously only a few specimens of the group, from the Pacific Ocean, were known to science. See the full gallery. Image: David Shale
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