MORE than 60 new species have been discovered in the Great Australian Bight.
The findings were made during the past three years of research by the Great Australian Bight Research Program.
The $20 million program is a collaboration between BP, CSIRO, the South Australian Research and Development Institute, University of Adelaide and Flinders University and will be completed in mid-2017.
Samples taken from the sea floor were collected from depths of between 100m to 3000m, and enabled researchers to identify at least 60 new species.
In its 2016 progress report released on Monday, the Great Australian Bight Research Program has identified eastern Great Australian Bight as one of Australia’s most productive marine environments.
But researchers admit little is known about the systems that support its rich biodiversity due to the high cost of sampling in these remote regions.
“The lack of existing knowledge about the organisms living there limit our -read more
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