Scientists find 30 potential new species at bottom of ocean

Most of the world's surface has been explored, but the deep sea is a mystery.

Scientists are using robot technology to find new species at the depths of the ocean, which may lead to a better understanding of the ocean's depths.

More than 30 new species have been found at the bottom of the sea by scientists from the Natural History Museum.

Humans can't get to the animals at the bottom of the ocean to study their genes.

A remotely operated vehicle was used to collect new species from the depths of the central Pacific. Scientists were able to get a better idea of the organisms at the bottom of the ocean thanks to this. The creatures from this area had only been photographed.

There were 48 different species of specimen recovered. Scientists are trying to understand some of the undiscovered species found in the deep ocean.

Implications for deep-sea mining could be very important as humans become more interested in exploiting the minerals from the sea.

Many of the organisms which are found at the bottom of the sea have not been studied. It seems that the activity could cause a lot of harm. The depths of the dark, deep sea are very biodiverse, with many of the animals found during the exploration.

The study found that there is a high diversity of large organisms in the depths of the ocean.

The discovery shows that there is a lot of diversity in the larger species. Once the genes are studied, there could be many more species.

The study is important due to the number of new species discovered, but also due to the fact that megafauna have only been studied from the sea.

We can't identify the animals and understand how many different species there are without the data they hold.

There could be many different types of animals living under the ocean because the area in which the species were found is different.

The species was found in a very deep part of the ocean, with 36Specimens found more than 4,800m deep, twoSpecimens collected on a seamount slope at 4,125m deep, and 17Specimens between 3,095 and 3,562m deep.

There are animals from the same family as centipedes and different types of coral.

Small millimetre-sized animals called macrofauna are extremely biodiverse in the deep sea.

We don't have a lot of information on the larger animals we call megafauna. This is the first time that it has been suggested that these groups have high diversity.