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100 potential new deep-sea species
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Marine researchers on a mission to record life hidden in the world’s oceans have reported they found about 100 potential new species — including one mystery starlike creature.
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- Research location: Bounty Trough, a little-explored part of the ocean off the coast of New Zealand, east of South Island.
- The team collected almost 1,800 samples from depths as far down as 3 miles (4,800 meters), finding species of fish, squid, mollusk and coral that they believe are new to science.
- The team found a new species of fish known as an eelpout that was “instantly recognized as being different to the others.
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Of the 2.2 million species believed to exist in Earth’s oceans, only 240,000 have been described by scientists. |
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