Hundreds of new species were discovered in the Philippines

The California Institute of Science has discovered more than 300 types of plants and animals that have never been discovered in the Philippines, which are ecologically threatened.

"The Philippines is one of the hottest spots in the world with diverse and threatened lives ," said Terrence Gosliner, the captain of the expedition on the Research Institute website, AFP reported.

According to Gosliner, the biodiversity here is still a mystery and the expedition has discovered many new creatures almost every corner of the reefs, tropical rainforests and the ocean floor in the country. this.

Many new creatures have been found in the Philippine sea and mainland.
(Photo: LiveScience.com).

The team's remarkable discovery is a shark species that lives in deep waters capable of enlarging the size of the body by sucking water into the stomach to threaten an enemy, or a starfish that likes to eat firewood. The team also discovered that some animals belonging to the prawn family, the needle crabs, and the deep-sea fishes have a tendency to hide in soft-bodied corals.

Many other animals live only in places especially difficult to find, such as eels - snakes that live only on the ocean floor, or a primitive lavender that grows only on steep slopes of the high Mount Isarog volcano 1976 meter.

According to the research team, these findings may complement the Philippine Sea hypothesis that contains more organisms than any other ocean environment on Earth.

This also challenges Philippine environmental conservationists to expand their waters to protect and prevent the dumping of plastic waste into the ocean. According to scientists, many of the Philippines' ecosystems are mostly protected in theory, due to the lack of many means to prevent illegal intrusion or hunting.

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