Lloyd Peck

The Life Scientific

BBC

Technology, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Science

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2012

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Jim Al-Khalili meets British Antarctic Survey scientist Lloyd Peck and discovers giant sea spiders. They and other small animals grow far bigger than usual in the extreme cold. Diving is an important part of Lloyd's job and we hear what it's like to play football under the ice. Studies suggest that the sea temperature is rising, and Lloyd investigates whether the animals he researches will be able to adapt and survive. Producer: Geraldine Fitzgerald.

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0:37.0	The Antarctic is a beautiful and extraordinary part of our planet and a unique place for scientists to study the effects of an extreme environment.
0:50.0	Lloyd Peck of the British Antarctic survey is my guest today.
0:54.0	He looks at how marine animals have adapted to living in cold isolation
0:58.0	and the animals he studies aren't necessarily the ones you might expect.
1:03.0	Ugh, they look like enormous tape worms.
1:06.0	This is really quite hurried.
1:09.0	Can I touch it?
1:10.0	Yeah, Cushka.
1:11.0	They're poisoning.
1:12.0	Oh, itushka. They're poisoned. Oh, it's mighty.
1:14.0	You get down then you have a look around, there's lots of rocks about.
1:16.0	You don't see much, a couple of urchins, quite a few limps.
1:19.0	As soon as you turn over the rocks and some amphons come swimming out, there's little scaleworms burrowing in them and is.
1:24.4	It's just an abundance of life that you don't really expect to see.
1:27.0	It's amazing.
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