{"id":16846,"date":"2024-03-12T00:47:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T00:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/12\/scientists-discover-100-potential-new-deep-sea-species-including-mystery-creature\/"},"modified":"2024-03-12T00:47:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T00:47:17","slug":"scientists-discover-100-potential-new-deep-sea-species-including-mystery-creature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/12\/scientists-discover-100-potential-new-deep-sea-species-including-mystery-creature\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover 100 potential new deep-sea species, including mystery creature"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Marine researchers on a mission to record life hidden in the world\u2019s oceans have reported they found about 100 potential new species \u2014 including one mystery starlike creature. <\/p>\n

The expedition team focused its investigation on the 500-mile (800-kilometer) long Bounty Trough, a little-explored part of the ocean off the coast of New Zealand, east of South Island. The scientists\u2019 three-week voyage aboard the research vessel Tangaroa, which belongs to the country\u2019s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, occurred in February. <\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got this big area off the east coast of New Zealand where there\u2019s just an absolutely paucity of data points. We don\u2019t know anything about it,\u201d said Dr. Daniel Moore, expedition science manager of Ocean Census, a new alliance launched in April 2023 that aims to identify 100,000 unknown species in the next 10 years. \u201cIt was true exploration, very exciting.\u201d <\/p>\n

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For the next three weeks, a team of scientists will sort and describe the deep-sea finds to confirm whether they are newfound species. <\/p>\n

The team\u2019s scientists have been puzzled by one find, which they initially thought was a type of sea star or sea anemone. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt is still a mystery. We can\u2019t even describe it to family. We don\u2019t know where it is in the tree (of life) as of yet, so that\u2019ll be interesting,\u201d Moore said.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Dr. Michela Mitchell, a taxonomist at the Queensland Museum Network, said in a statement released by Ocean Census it could be a type of deep-sea coral called octocoral. <\/p>\n

\u201cEven more excitingly, it could be a whole new group outside of the octocoral. If it is, that is a significant find for the deep sea and gives us a much clearer picture of the planet\u2019s unique biodiversity,\u201d she said in the statement. <\/p>\n

Moore said he was surprised that the team found a new species of fish known as an eelpout that was \u201cinstantly recognized as being different to the others.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cFinding new vertebrates is rare. There\u2019s hundreds of thousands of invertebrates in the sea that we still don\u2019t know. Vertebrates, we like to think that we know what\u2019s out there, but the reality is, we just don\u2019t,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

To collect the samples, the vessel towed three different types of sleds depending on the terrain.\u00a0These included a traditional beam trawl that towed a net to collect samples, a heavy-duty seamount sled for rocky surfaces and another device that sampled the water just above the seafloor, as well as a towed underwater camera. <\/p>\n

Huge gaps remain in scientific knowledge of the ocean depths. Of the 2.2 million species believed to exist in Earth\u2019s oceans, only 240,000 have been described by scientists, according to Ocean Census. <\/p>\n\n

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