s o aboutfifty ocean sites—almost fifty t tic dumpers were Russia, Cions of Europe.
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remotely understood. And t must routinely cometo to breathe.
For animals t need never surface, obscurity can be even more tantalizing. Consider t squid. t is a decidedly substantialanimal, railing tentacles t can reacyfeet. It invertebrate. If you dumped one in a normal be muc no scientist—no person as far as s edcareers to trying to capture, or just glimpse, living giant squid and ly from being exist in large numbers because tral part of t, and sperm of feeding.
1According to one estimate, ty million species of animalsliving in t still undiscovered. t of life is in t come until as recently as tion of t captures organisms not just on and near t also buried ints beneatrainental s a deptunder a mile, oods ted over25,000 creatures—arfising 365 species.
Even at a deptures representing almost 200species of organism. But ture t oo sloupid toget out of te 1960s a marine biologist named Jo tolo attaco it, and found still more, in particular dense sive eel-like creature, as ing shoals of grenadier fish.
ance, tom—as many as 390 species of marine creature .
Interestingly, many of tures o s up to a tant. types as mussels and clams, ravelers. It is no t tain organisms may drift ter until, by some unkno t t a foodopportunity and fall onto it.
So ax to begin uniformly bounteous. Altogetenturally productive. Most aquatic species like to be in sers ter to