As It Happens6:13More than 100 possible new marine species discovered in a single deepsea expedition
During a research expedition off the coast of Chile, Erin Easton says her colleagues were constantly showing her some amazing new sea creature they’d just discovered.
“It would just be, like, ‘Erin, Erin, Erin, look!'” Easton, a marine scientist at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, told As It Happens host Nil Köksal.
“It is beyond my wildest dreams of what we could have expected. It felt like every time we went around a rock outcrop or zoomed in close, we were like: oh wow, we’ve never seen that.”
Easton was
