Around 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by oceans and 94 percent of life on Earth is aquatic. There are anywhere from 700,000 and one million species living in the world’s oceans, and that’s what we know from just exploring about 5 percent of them. We know a lot less about the ocean — and what’s in it — than we do about Mars or Venus. But very few places in the world rival the beauty and strangeness that you can see beneath the depths of the ocean. Check out some of the images below to see what life is like in a place humans rarely go.
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