Deep Sea Creatures
Scientists have speculated that as many as 10 million species may inhabit the deep sea - biodiversity comparable to the world's richest tropical rainforests. Because deep-sea species live in rarely disturbed environments and tend to be slow growing, late maturing and endemic, they are exceptionally vulnerable to changes to their environment, and therefore, particularly at risk from the devastation wreaked by deep sea bottom trawlers and potentially, extinction.

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