Discovery of 100 Species off New Zealand
Scientists on an expedition to the underexplored Bounty Trough off New Zealand have discovered around 100 new and potentially new ocean species.
The three-week voyage on NIWA’s research vessel Tangaroa was the first flagship Southern Hemisphere expedition for Ocean Census, a global alliance to accelerate the discovery and protection of life in the ocean founded by The Nippon Foundation and UK ocean exploration foundation Nekton.
The team of scientists from NIWA and Te Papa in New Zealand collaborated with experts from the U.K. and Australia to collect almost 1,800 samples from as deep as 4,800 m along the 800-km-long Bounty Trough.