Experts dropped mesh nets down to more than 15,000 feet in Bounty Trough, off the east coast of New Zealand s South Island, to find creatures new to science.
Scientists with Museums Victoria have returned from a 35-day expedition discovering deep-sea creatures around the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Marine Park in Australia.
A new ecosystem has been discovered 1,640 feet (500 metres) underwater by University of Oxford researchers, where swarms of trapped plankton are feasted upon by sharks and large fish.