An underwater mountain range lies off the coast of Peru with life beyond our imagination ????

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Millennia-old corals, watermelon-sized urchins, fish with fins adapted for walking, and more among over 100 species thought to be new to science!

The underwater mountains of the Nazca and Salas y Gómez ridges are isolated by a vast low-oxygen zone, the depths of the Atacama Trench, and the powerful Humboldt Current—an isolation that allowed evolution to follow its own trajectory. Almost half the species encountered there exist only there. Learn more inside Nautilus Magazine! Video footage via @SchmidtOcean.

Nautilus is the foremost literary science publication to find rigorous science writing told with impeccable style. Our stories will light up your emotions, and introduce you to a delightfully weird and surprising mix of big ideas — ideas that will be debated long into the future.

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