More than 2,000 scientists from 80 countries are all working together to try to discover and catalog as many of the oceans’ species as they can find. Although the process is slow and costly they are working together to get it done. So far in this study they have recorded 5,600 new species plus the 230,000 already known. 17,650 species living are living below a death of 656 feet, the depth that sunlight no longer reaches at all. The scientists say they have found 5,722 species living in depths deeper than 3,280 feet.
Up until recently the deep sea was considered a desert but now they know there are close to 20,000 organisms living there. Scientists hope to find several thousand more creatures by October 2010 when the project is over. Scientists estimate that there close to 1 million organisms still undiscovered. Once the project is complete, they plan is to publish three books, a popular survey of sea life, a second book with chapters for each working group and a third focusing on biodiversity.
I wonder what some of the crazy creatures they have found are.
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This is interesting…maybe they’ll find something other than fish. Maybe they’ll find a different animal that’s huge. This could help the world a lot also, because we could find creatures that might give us resources, or chemicals that we could use in our daily life.
If their is a million more organisms, then there has to be some of the organisms that will help us.
Haha I think its kind of funny that we are now finding new species in the ocean. I mean we have all of this technology and have had it for years and we are just now finding new species. I think that’s crazy how they think there is close to one million more organisms we have never seen. Do u think they will find close to that many before October 2010. i was looking for some pics of these new species and i found this http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/25/new-deep-sea-species-disc_n_369965.html some of them look pretty crazy.
if they go to the bottom of the mariana trench i would think they could find maybe a massive squid of some sort of crazy sea creature that could eat a house… i do know that if more creatures are discovered then maybe they migh be able to find a type of resource the creature can make that could possibly be the next big cure.