Scientists calculate there are thousands of unidentified species living on the ocean floor between Hawaii and Mexico where deep-sea mining for critical minerals needed to build batteries is set to begin next year.

How many #metazoan species live in the world’s largest mineral exploration region?

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https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00534-1