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Unexpected marine biodiversity discovered
HAMBURG, Germany, May 21 (UPI) -- German researchers have reported finding 585 new species of crustaceans in the depths of the Southern Ocean.
The discovery came during three sampling expeditions set up as part of the Antarctic benthic deep-sea biodiversity project. The discovery of unexpected levels of biodiversity challenge assumptions that deep sea diversity is depressed in that area.
Angelika Brandt and colleagues from the University of Hamburg collected biological specimens and environmental data from different regions between 2,500 and 21,000 feet under the surface of the Weddell Sea and adjacent areas.

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Read the research behind this story in the journal Nature.