More than 6,000 newly discovered marine species. In it, there are many wonderful and beautiful creatures.
Recent scientists have just published the results of a comprehensive study of marine species. The total cost for this global survey is up to 650 million USD. There are 2,700 scientists, 670 research institutes participating in the project with more than 540 expeditions during 9,000 days.
They used the most advanced technology to track which waters the fish or swim to. Scientists use modern machines to record seal data. They dive into the water with audio equipment to ' measure ' fish around Manhattan Island.
Shrimp is known as Ceratonotus. It has thorns and looks very scary. This creature was first found in 2006 at a depth of 5.4 thousand meters in Angola Basin. And that same year, it was found in the South Atlantic Ocean and in the Pacific Ocean.
The survey provided the most comprehensive picture ever made about the diversity and richness as well as the distribution of all types of ocean creatures from the submarine bacteria to the whales; from the icy polar regions to the warm tropics and from shallow areas near the shore to the middle of the deep ocean.
The blind lobster with a very long and strange appearance is said to be a rare species with only 4 samples taken in Australia.
The project has discovered about 6,000 new species. Professor Ian Poiner, Chairman of the research project, said: ' From oceans or regions with water at the polar ends of the earth or equatorial regions, there is a rich life of the organism. So there may be millions of different species on the ocean floor that still exist. "
Professor Niel Bruce (Queensland Tropical Museum) is studying marine creatures when exposed to light.
For example, shrimp is known as Ceratonotus. It has thorns and looks very scary. This creature was first found in 2006 at a depth of 5.4 thousand meters in Angola Basin. And that same year, it was found in the South Atlantic Ocean and in the Pacific Ocean.
This slug is found at Suiyo Seamount, Japan.
Explorers Pedro Martinez Arbizu, head of the German Research Center of the Oceanic Biodiversity Research Project, said he was also surprised by the discoveries of tiny organisms that could be reside in such large areas.
This crustacean was found in the Atlantic Ocean in 2005.
He said: ' After 10 years of research, we realized that we still cannot accurately assess the number of marine species. The species we know are at least about 1 million species living in the sea areas of the earth. "
The Yeti hairy crab was discovered in 2006.
One of the most beautiful and wonderful species discovered in a decade of research is Jurassic shrimp. This shrimp seems to be extinct 50 million years ago. And especially the species of the Yeti crab
Sea dragon shaped with leaves.
The expeditions discovered that Atlantic tuna also lived in the eastern US coast and the waters of Spain or the Mediterranean when they migrated.
The moth is found in Sagami Bay, Japan at a depth of 925 meters.
Many marine organisms are found in places where it seems impossible to live. Due to genetic factors or the need for survival, many species have moved from one sea area to another or live in the upper layer of the sea to the ocean floor.
The pipe worm is found in the Celebes Sea in South Asia.
Professor Poiner said: ' For the first time, we have a study of the life of the ocean and have a global boundary that gives us a different perspective on the future. From there, changing actions for marine animals, developing energy sources, exploiting gas and oil, global climate impacts, warnings about ocean and sea is increasingly acidic. chemical.
The study also helps us look back at how we fish, with the foods we use in the restaurant to see what happened to the sea . '
This project is a meaningful activity to write a global map of the wild under the sea. The study offers a lot of specials from turtle studies to seabirds and sharks. These species are getting less and less with human hunting.