A marine expedition found 31 new species in 2 weeks using breakthrough tech

A research mission set out from Brazil to explore the ocean’s ‘twilight zone’. Plunging from 200 to 1,000 metres deep, this is the largest habitat on Earth and is estimated to contain 90% of the global biosphere. Researchers on the Schmidt Ocean Institute vessel brought a groundbreaking microscope called the Squid, which uses lasers to scan living creatures - even single-celled ones. The ocean could hold as many as 1.75 million undescribed species. But habitat destruction, pollution, climate change, and overfishing all pose grave threats to ocean life. Friends of Ocean Action is a group of leaders from business, science and civil society who use their knowledge to help conserve the ocean and sustainably ma