Looking at the bottom of the sea

2006/05/08 Roa Zubia, Guillermo - Elhuyar Zientzia

• Biologia
• Zoologia

Biologists find many unknown species when looking at the bottom of the sea. An example of this is the project Census of Marine Zooplankton. Twenty-eight marine biologists from the United States embarked on the capture of a zooplankton five kilometers deep. Accordingly, about 500 species were collected, analyzed and classified. The analysis was done, among other things, with a portable DNA reader. One of the unknown species they collected can be seen in the image. It is a tiny, bell-shaped animal called Hippodius hippopopopodius. The original photo and many others are available on this website of the journal Nature.