Scientists Discover 5,000 New Spices at the Bottom of Pacific Ocean

Scientists have discovered 5,000 unexplored creatures in an area of the Pacific Ocean called the Clarion-Clipperton Zonat.

The Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) is a fault in the Pacific Ocean that lies between Hawaii and Mexico.

Check out those magnificent creatures in Sputnik's photo gallery!

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An anemone

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Sea cucumber Amperima sp. on the seabed in the eastern Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone.

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Solmissus sp.

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A seastar

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Relicanthus sp. -- a new species from a new order of Cnidaria collected at 4,100 meters in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCZ) that lives on sponge stalks attached to nodules.

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A ‘gummy squirrel’, the nickname given to Psychropotes longicauda, one of the thousands of newly discovered creatures in the depths of the Pacific Ocean

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A 40-cm long elasipod sea cucumber

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A newly discovered worm species from APEI-4 that is unknown to science, this species will be given a description and a name

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Gummy squirrel (“Psychropotes longicauda”)

5,000 Unexplored Creatures Found at the Bottom of Pacific Ocean