See the dozens of new species this deep-sea robot just discovered

Dr. Seuss couldn’t dream this stuff up.

Forests of ancient corals. Clusters of undersea urchins with cactus-like spikes, as if a desert had been inundated. Gardens of glassy sponges, clinging to the slopes of an underwater mountain range soaring up thousands of feet from the seafloor.

Deep-sea explorers searching below the waves off the coast of Chile may have found more than 100 species completely new to science.

Read more at the Washington Post.