Oil Spill Attacks Underwater World

Scientists say they have no idea how the oil spill, still spreading throughout the Gulf of Mexico, will affect the complicated ecosystem that thrives in the deep waters off the U.S. coast. Among those creatures that make the Gulf their home are sharks, sperm whales, and giant squid. There's even a flesh-eating scavenger, which one biologist describes as "a giant roach, put... on steroids." Said one oceanographer, "Everybody fixates on the picture of the cormorant or the bird flailing around all covered with oil, and while that's obviously sad to see, no one should assume there's not similar things occurring in the open ocean."