A study has identified more than 5,000 new species living in deep-sea habitats in the Pacific Ocean in a region known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), a seabed targeted for mining in the coming years.The zone extends roughly 6 million sq km (2.3 million sq miles) between Hawaii and Mexico.Researchers said on Thursday that they had identified 5,578 species in the zone, of which 92 percent were new to science.
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