“Expectations far exceeded’: Experts find over 100 unknown animal species in the deep sea. “One always expects to find new species in these remote and under-explored areas, but the amount we have found is staggering,” wrote the team of researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute.
Further expeditions are already underway - novelty status is being checked. Another team of scientists discovered a “golden egg” on the ocean floor. A relic of an animal species from the Triassic period was also found in China.