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

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

A seastar

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.

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

A 40-cm long elasipod sea cucumber

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

Gummy squirrel (“Psychropotes longicauda”)