CNN —Marine researchers on a mission to record life hidden in the world’s oceans have reported they found about 100 potential new species — including one mystery starlike creature. We don’t know where it is in the tree (of life) as of yet, so that’ll be interesting,” Moore said. There’s hundreds of thousands of invertebrates in the sea that we still don’t know. Rebekah Pars/Ocean Census/NIWATo collect the samples, the vessel towed three different types of sleds depending on the terrain. Of the 2.2 million species believed to exist in Earth’s oceans, only 240,000 have been described by scientists, according to Ocean Census.

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Persons: Michela Mitchell, Sadie Mills, “ You’ve, ”, Daniel Moore, ” Moore, Rebekah Pars, NIWA Moore, “ Organizations: CNN — Marine, country’s National Institute of Water, Atmospheric Research, Queensland Museum Network Locations: New Zealand, South Island