More Than 100 New Species Found In Sea Depth; Scientists Targeted 1 Lakh More In Next 10 years

Scientists have found more than 100 new species in the deep sea off the coast of Chile. They look as if they are from another planet. These include many unique corals, sponges, sea urchins, amphipods and squat lobsters. This type of species had not been seen till date. Let us tell you that in the depths of the sea near Chile, a 2,900 kilometer long chain consisting of more than 200 mountains up to 3,530 meters high has been formed. These sea mountains are known as the Salas y Gomez Ridge. Now unique things have been found here.

According to the Mirror report, a team of international scientists was searching for treasure in these areas with the help of a robot named Subastian. They expected that there might be huge amounts of cobalt under water. Some companies are also engaged in this work here. Scientists fear that if anything is extracted from here, it will destroy most of the unseen marine life living here. The robot that scientists are using to investigate this place can go to a depth of 4,500 meters in the sea. It is 14.5 times taller than The Shard of London. It has been designed to collect data from seamounts.

Scientists found that coral rocks and sponges are live. At such depths they also found brightly colored and mysterious species of fish, lobsters and amphipods, which humans had probably never seen before. Scientists are now studying their genes to see whether they match any species present on Earth or not. Professor Dr. Xavier Selenes said, whatever we saw was surprising. Especially some groups like Sponge, we had never even imagined this. Let us tell you that for the first time scientists are exploring areas with a depth of more than 600 meters. They have set a target of discovering 100,000 new marine species in the next 10 years.