Deep-Sea Robot Discovers dozens of new animal species
Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:50 am
Deep-Sea Robot Discovers dozens of new animal species
See the dozens of new species this deep-sea robot just discovered
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Alien-looking lobsters, sponges, urchins, sea stars and sea lilies are among the creatures deep-sea explorers found off the coast of Chile
Dr. Seuss couldn’t dream this stuff up.
Forests of ancient corals. Clusters of undersea urchins with cactus-like spikes, as if a desert had been inundated. Gardens of glassy sponges, clinging to the slopes of an underwater mountain range soaring up thousands of feet from the seafloor.
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Deep-sea explorers searching below the waves off the coast of Chile may have found more than 100 species completely new to science.
More than 100 potentially new species were found off the Chilean coast by deep-sea researchers in January and February 2024. (Video: Schmidt Ocean Institute)
The potential discovery of the new creatures across 10 seamounts in the southeast Pacific does more than just add to the depth of understanding of the sheer diversity of ocean life. For the researchers, it shows how ocean protections put in place by the Chilean government are working to bolster biodiversity, an encouraging sign for other countries looking to safeguard their marine waters.
See the dozens of new species this deep-sea robot just discovered
Read more here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate- ... -deep-sea/
Alien-looking lobsters, sponges, urchins, sea stars and sea lilies are among the creatures deep-sea explorers found off the coast of Chile
Dr. Seuss couldn’t dream this stuff up.
Forests of ancient corals. Clusters of undersea urchins with cactus-like spikes, as if a desert had been inundated. Gardens of glassy sponges, clinging to the slopes of an underwater mountain range soaring up thousands of feet from the seafloor.
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Deep-sea explorers searching below the waves off the coast of Chile may have found more than 100 species completely new to science.
More than 100 potentially new species were found off the Chilean coast by deep-sea researchers in January and February 2024. (Video: Schmidt Ocean Institute)
The potential discovery of the new creatures across 10 seamounts in the southeast Pacific does more than just add to the depth of understanding of the sheer diversity of ocean life. For the researchers, it shows how ocean protections put in place by the Chilean government are working to bolster biodiversity, an encouraging sign for other countries looking to safeguard their marine waters.