Take a Peak at Rare Deep Sea Creatures

Gizmodo recently published this piece covering work from researchers out of Schmidt Ocean Institute:

For 34 days, they mapped out over 11,500 square miles (30,000 square kilometers) of the ocean floor with high-resolution underwater cameras, and also got video of five additional underwater mountains.

“The coverage of this expedition was remarkable—we found changes in species across depth and geography around the Pacific equator and in the suite of organisms living on corals,”

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