Scientists discover previously unknown creatures at a depth of 5,000 meters in Antarctica
An international team working on board a research vessel from New Zealand, named "Tanangaro", was able to discover three previously unknown marine creatures, according to the researchers.
The research team was surveying the floor of the Ross Sea near Antarctica, which is still unknown, using the latest technologies known to date.
According to the New Zealand researcher Dr. Dave Bowden, who confirmed that these creatures are larger than anything seen so far on the seabed.
"The Southern Ocean is very deep, with depths ranging from 3 to 5,000 meters," said Dr. Bowen.
We don't know much about the Ross Sea in southern New Zealand. ”
"And our expedition on the Tangora was the first to search the continental slope of the Ross Sea, and the first to look at a group of seamounts in the Ross Sea," he added.
"The primary tools we used to obtain samples from these areas are depth-determining cameras, which are attached to wires under the research vessel and they give us direct images of the structure of the aquatic environment," said Dr. Bowen in an interview with the New Zealand National Institute of Water and Environmental Research.
The biological diversity of the continental shelf area in the Russian Sea is very large, and cannot be compared to any place in the world. This is due to the isolation of the continental shelf of the South Pole from the rest of the world for many years.
Bowden showed a creature from that was discovered and said about him: “This is a sea spider, which is one of the groups that live in the Antarctic system and it is more diverse than the rest of the species in the world and it grows to a great size.
The legs make up his entire body, and there is no body for him other than the creatures we know. ''
Dr. Bowen showed a bowl of another strange creature.
"This is another strange creature, a multi-headed worm, which is much larger than what we know," he said.
He added, "One of the strangest discoveries made during this scientific expedition was made on the seamounts in the northern Ross Sea, where we found a group of sea lilies that are similar to sea urchins."
The doctor concluded his speech by saying, "The only time we have seen such creatures in the fossil records, and we have not seen anything similar alive before on the sea floor."
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