THE LURE OF THE SEA

The ocean covers 70 per cent of our planet, yet scientists have studied less than five per cent of it. Here are four recent discoveries.

Resembling a blobfish with a dagger-shaped tail, the scaleless, translucent Mariana snailfish lives at depths of 8,000m. A successful social media career is on the cards. The 2011 East Japan earthquake brought us Fukushima, but less known was the trans-Pacific migration of more than 280 coastal species, riding tsunami debris from Japan to North America.