The Clarion-Clipperton Zone is roughly twice the size of India, sits 4,000 to 6,000 meters deep in the Pacific Ocean, and is largely a mystery, like much of the deep sea.
More than 5,000 animal species previously unknown to science live in a pristine part of the deep sea.
Their home — called the Clarion-Clipperton Zone — sits in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Mexico. The zone is roughly twice the size of India, sits 4,000 to 6,000 meters deep and is largely a mystery, like much of the deep sea. In a new study, scientists amassed and analyzed more than 100,000 published records of animals found in the zone, with some records dating back to the 1870s. About 90 percent of species: There were only about 440 named species compared with roughly 5,100 without scientific names.
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