Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

Less than a fifth of deep-sea life Is identifiable

#1
C C Offline
https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/less-...ntifiable/

EXCERPT: . . . Nine hundred hours of deep-sea video footage has revealed a lot about how little we understand the abyssal ocean. Researchers scrutinizing the footage, taken around Pacific islands such as Hawai‘i, have concluded that they only recognize roughly a fifth of the creatures caught on the recordings.

The research, presented at a scientific meeting in San Diego, California this week, gives a clear sense of just how mysterious the deep sea really is. “There’s a lot left to discover,” says biologist Randi Rotjan of Boston University in Massachusetts, who coauthored the work.

It’s an often-quoted (and very true) statement that we have better maps of the moon than we do of the ocean floor. But quantifying just how mysterious the deep sea is is tricky. Most previous studies, says Rotjan, have focused on discovering new species or surveying smaller areas, and it’s hard to compile broad statistics on deep-sea life from lots of little studies done with different methodologies.

The new report is based on data from the CAPSTONE project [...] A team of experts concluded that fewer than 20 percent of the creatures spotted could be identified at the species level. Sometimes that was because the photos were too grainy or the species too small to identify without a microscope, says Rotjan. But the majority were simply unknown.... (MORE - details)
Reply
#2
Yazata Offline
Cryptozoology lives in the deep ocean!

Even on land, many species still haven't been recorded or cataloged. Most are small, insects mostly.

But in the deep ocean abyss, even large animals probably still remain to be discovered.

The Earth's oceans have an area (whose depths and bottom are still little known) that is larger than the entire surface of Mars. And unlike Mars, we know for a fact that there's life down there.

It's like an unknown planet waiting to be explored!
Reply


Possibly Related Threads…
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Article Alien life may evolve from radically different elements than human life did C C 0 70 Sep 29, 2023 08:59 PM
Last Post: C C
  Sea snakes mistake divers for possible mates + Radical new framework to redefine life C C 2 127 Aug 19, 2021 07:18 PM
Last Post: Magical Realist
  Sea slug memories transferred thru RNA Magical Realist 1 360 May 15, 2018 05:23 PM
Last Post: C C
  Deep-space travel, colonization may rely on genetically engineered life forms C C 0 411 Jun 19, 2017 06:42 PM
Last Post: C C



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)