Natural History Wanderings

ScienceAlert reports

In the Clarion-Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean between Mexico and Hawaii, marine scientists have discovered animals humanity has never seen before: creatures who live very different lives, in the permanent darkness of the abyssopelagic.

“These areas are the Earth’s least explored. It’s estimated that only one out of ten animal species living down here has been described by science,” says marine ecologist Thomas Dahlgren of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.

Read more at Alien-Looking Species Seen For First Time Ever in Ocean’s Darkest Depths : ScienceAlert